Geez, I hate when good guys weasel like this. We should never pick our words based on whether some clymer will be offended or not. Black students at SMU who are already stressted and feeling inferior because they would not survive to graduation without being graded on a separate scale, are ALWAYS going to be offended by anything that tends to highlight the disparity, the double standard.
Once you apologize for offending, the clymer is able to control your words by claiming offense and throwing your apology back at you. If a good guy feels he must apologize, apologize that the clymer is so insecure that he feels offended.
The good guys also missed a major opportunity by not calling it an "Affirmative Action Bake Sale," designed to bring diversity to the customer base by not just catering to the wealthy folks who could afford a buck a cookie.
Excellent points.
Forcing one individual or group to benefit another individual or group will always produce hate between the parties. And this is true whether the benefit is in treatment or money or other desired goods and services.
Forced transfer of benefits destroys incentive because it disconnects rewards from those who produced them, producing hate of the system, hate of the beneficiaries, hate of the benefactors, and eventually hatred of just about everything and everyone. And a variety of counter-incentives which I will not go into now.
Hate develops naturally and necessarily from forcing people to benefit others.
Anyone can test this out by merely forcing some person to benefit some other person, on an ongoing basis, preferably for the rest of their lives (to produce the most extreme and enduring hate for those who need extra persuasion).
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