If as you said there are a bunch of people most qualified, why use a flip of a coin. Why not give it to a woman or an hispanic?
"If as you said there are a bunch of people most qualified, why use a flip of a coin. Why not give it to a woman or an hispanic?"
Because it's preferential treatment on the basis of sex or ethnic background, and I think that's wrong, just as I think "affirmitive action" is abhorrent.