5th November 2003, 1:51 PM
Ah, that's cleared up then. You don't ACTUALLY think people with greater natural abilities are superior, EXCEPT in that particular area where they have the natural aptitude. Now that's of course true. The only problem is creating some caste system where people are born into a certain job and society says "you're not good at anything else naturally so just do this". The OPPOSITE end is giving people who have a harder time all manner of help, possibly to the point where they didn't even have to do any work to "succeed". Neither one is good, but rather, BAD.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)