People act according to their natures. Owning your own nature is virtuous, but claiming to have chosen it is a falsehood. Too much performative ritual is based on the laundering of natural character into the illusion of causal choice.
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The concept of equal opportunity is inherently nihilist in that it refuses the possibility of such external standards. In a broader sense, markets themselves are nihilistic by the same logic. But at least markets mediate interests where otherwise impossible.
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Equal opportunity is a ritualistic sham wherein the competent are periodically sacrificed to the incompetent to appease the egregore of mass public delusion about self-worth. There may be some utility in that, but even then it should optimally be done randomly, not preferentially
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