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Originally Posted by twistedsquid
Standards are minimums. Certain environments don't accept minimums.
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Then whatever that environment would accept should become their standard.
I'm not trying to be disagreeable. If I came off that way, I apologize. This is your house, and I'm not about to track my muddy boots into it. I just want to respectfully add to the conversation from a civilian point of view.
What tires me out about our society is that we have dimmed the standards to fit people rather than only take people that fit the standard. It's as if society has a need to prove that so-and-so is the first (insert name of new identity here) to do something. In my view, if you truly accomplish something based on meeting the requirements to do so (and those requirements haven't been watered down to meet you), then you are simply the next person to attain that achievement.
As an example, President Obama was seen to be the first black President of the United States. I could argue he was the 44th white President because his mother is white. But in the end, he was simply the next person to inhabit that office. When seen from this viewpoint, his race doesn't matter. All that matters is that he won the election...just like everybody else.
I really believe that a lot of our division in our country comes about because people want to hold on to the feeling of oppression because of social distinction. My stepson told me yesterday that you can't have equality while still yearning for entitlement. I tucked that one away in the old brain-housing, as it spoke volumes of why race, gender, class distinctions matter so much to some people. Take away the distinction, and you take away the entitlement.