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Argument: Affirmative action fails to achieve justice as it sacrifices the rights of one group to attempt to bring justice to another
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- "Instead of doing justice, preferential treatment violates rights (the right of an applicant “to equal consideration.”"
- The right of the maximally competent to an open position
- The right of everyone to equal opportunity
- Confounds desert (by severing reward from a “person's character, talents, choices and abilities”
- “Subordinating merit, conduct, and character to race;”[16] by disconnecting outcomes from actual liability and damage[17])."
