[Samseau]

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Governments push these policies and force adherence to them in order to satisfy their compelling interests. The laws of our land (repeatedly affirmed by our own supreme court) and many others across the planet and across time (from Babylon to Persia to Rome to China and to Mali) have upheld the right of government to engage in such practices, while subsequently displaying the necessity and benefit of doing so. Civilization was built on the back of said practices.

Not true. The best civilizations have been created by law givers that best understood the culture of the people they were dealing with, and created appropriate laws in response to the traditions already in place in order to maximize prosperity.

No government is created in a vacuum, and those that have tried have failed miserably (i.e. see Communist regimes).

American culture was founded on the premise that all men have the same basic rights: property, liberty, and life. AA is in direct opposition to the idea that everyone has an equal shot at property, since certain groups will be excluded in favor of other groups in the name of racist legislation.

Now, even if we agree that equality is bullshit (which it mostly is), it does not change the fact that American culture is based on equality and it would be wrong to change this basic cultural underpinning.

AA goes against this cultural premise, by keeping lesser qualified individuals in place of higher qualified ones.