The unfortunate truth is that behavioural genetics has shown a true meritocracy is impossiblehttps://twitter.com/kph3k/status/1118910944090951682 …
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If effort and skill are heritable, do people deserve to be rewarded for them? This, to me, is a different question. You're not asking whether something is meritocratic or not. You're simply asking whether meritocracy is a moral system or not. Some say yes, some say no.
This is just a rehash of Hume on personal responsibility in behavioral genetics terms.
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I'm not aware of Hume's arguments regarding personal responsibility
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Personal responsibility is the framing for meritocracy. The idea of rewarding skill and ability is to put skilled and capable people in charge of shit and give them more power. You can defend it on purely consequentialist terms
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I agree with that. Meritocracy is not fair in some ultimate deeply satisfactory metaphysical sense, nothing is -- we're in a universe devoid of deeper meaning. However, meritocratic types of government promote progress & welfare for people in general, that's why it's preferable.
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What you should also inculcate is benevolence and empathy on the part of the most skilled and capable, so that they use their power to benefit others besides themselves and their kin. That's the social contract that keeps society stable.
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