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There's a big difference between lowering the standards for entry for donor kids but does that include lowering standards for their final exam?. I would say the latter is quite different. Entry standards are in part an aptitude test to select those most able to benefit from a challenging curriculum. And in part a selection process where demand (the number of capable stu...

I see DEI as a rising ideology that has swept across and taken over many institutions around the world and is damaging to society. Rising? Affirmative Action (DEI's previous label), started in 1965 and has been losing ground since 1996. I think DEI certainly has been rising, at least until the last few years anyway. And I think that DEI is an all encompassing ideology that inclu...

Just to be clear, are you saying that admitting donor's kids preferentially makes more (similar or less) sense than a public school admitting classes that reflect the "public"?Lower standards for donor's offspring makes "business sense". It would be wrong for the State to do it, because the State exists to serve all citizens equally, but it makes sense for a business to do it to...

I would respect arguments against using demographics in addition to academics, if there was an equally loud argument against donor's kids, legacies and children of the powerful (which don't even pretend to have a benefit to the public).This could be my ignorance but I'm not sure this is as much of a thing in the UK as it is the USA.

However, I can see an argument in d...

Obviously, there are malignant liars, and their behavior is the actual target of the "idealist" stance of morality. But, again such targeting is also compatible with my functional guidelines approach to morality. I would say that it is part of the role of Ethics, that subset of philosophy that deals with right and wrong, to refine the child-appropriate injunction "never tell a l...