The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

The concept of equal opportunity is especially pernicious since it is basically just a blank check for those in power to enforce their subjectivity regardless of its logic or consequences. If there is external right and wrong then virtue comes from following external standards.

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.

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

Equality meaning equal outcome(s) should be noted, as it is just regressive and highly flawed/fallacious. Yet somehow it's part the foundation for acceptance into top-tier higher education institutions and many other places.

W/things like this article though, it's an uphill battle for those on the side of reason & enlightenment. The clickbait title "Argue better-with science!" is kinda funny, given that they encourage abuse of biases & fallacious logic...intellectual bullying. https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13708996/argue-better-science …

Probably they mean "argument" as distinct from "debate" which is more rule-based, at least in principle (some debates devolve into bizarre rule-exploitation and deviate from the idealistic standards of formal debate).

It's pushing the false 'my feelings over your facts' into mainstream thinking. Towards the end of it they get to 1 of the main reasons - it's a guide for large numbers of political canvassers to target vulnerable people, who aren't even aware they're having this done to them.

It's doing something else I think: acknowledging a plurality of facts, but also that most are persuaded by feelings more than facts. IE, it's saying that the salience of specific facts to you says nothing of their salience to another person, and that salience is emotion driven.