Interesting. Clarifies where I part ways with the party line. For me diversity is in fact The Thing. It’s the variation driving evolution, the variety in the robustness, the epistemic triangulation in stronger thinking, etc. Justice is just one way to use the potential energy.
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Hamlett Act 2, Scene 2
POLONIUS
My lord, I will give them all they deserve.
HAMLET
Good heavens, man, give them more than that! If you pay everyone what they deserve, would anyone ever escape a whipping?
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Well said. Rare point of complete agreement. Justice is much harder to define, and ends up being “what I deem just”. Diversity is an indisputable good in and of itself.
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