Re:SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund
by sneak on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:33AM
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“This system of helping people does not help all people who need help, therefore it is bad.”
No. This comment is similar to responding to “black lives matter” with “all lives matter”.
Helping a subset of those who need help is acceptable too.
Put aside your hardwired, human-as-social-animal unfairness alert criticism, and recognize that this is a good thing, and it is better that this exists than the case where it does not.
Affirmative action isn’t fair either, but it is still a good thing that it exists.
Once everyone in society is treated equally and has equal opportunities, then and only then can we start criticizing equality improvement efforts on fairness.
There is no requirement that helping people who need help be done so fairly or evenly. Abandon that concept.
No. This comment is similar to responding to “black lives matter” with “all lives matter”.
Helping a subset of those who need help is acceptable too.
Put aside your hardwired, human-as-social-animal unfairness alert criticism, and recognize that this is a good thing, and it is better that this exists than the case where it does not.
Affirmative action isn’t fair either, but it is still a good thing that it exists.
Once everyone in society is treated equally and has equal opportunities, then and only then can we start criticizing equality improvement efforts on fairness.
There is no requirement that helping people who need help be done so fairly or evenly. Abandon that concept.