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That sounds slightly unreasonable.
what was her job,. educational background, experience in the field, and who was expecting this? And on whom, I suppose
... I would like to meet the surgeon with a positive survivor to fatality and/or major fuckup rate that couldn't read. Or even just read poorly. Last I checked we tried that at points in the past, and got bloodletting, excess cranial holes, and a great deal of amputation.
I know if an ambulance drove up to a hospital after getting my legs mangled, and then told me my surgeon was illiterate, I'd be noping myself right off that stretcher and taking my chances with bleeding out.
In fairness, you probably could become a highly skilled surgeon without being able to read, so long as you were apprenticed by one that could for a decade or two.
How is treating people based on things they have received as a culmination of their genetics and birthright fair?
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who is barely able to read?
What is being talked about is fairness of opportunity vs fairness of result. In an ideal meritocracy, the only criterion for advancing into a profession or field of study would be your ability to do the work of that profession or field of study. In a fair meritocracy, any inequality in the chance to gain that ability would be attacked mercilessly, but if you can't get the ability, you don't get to do that profession no matter how much you want it.
You'll be paying every adult (presumably) an amount of money that can be lived on.Too expensive.Not really? I mean I haven't seen studies or anything but I don't think that's the problem.
Do the rest of you ever distribute kingdoms gained in holy wars or such out in county-sized parcels first, then upgrade counts to dukes, and then a duck to king? Or am I the only one who does that?
