
David Benatar on Affirmative Action
Brain in a Vat
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The Regrettable Feature of Post-Apartheid South Africa
The country is going through very difficult times as though the power goes out for extended periods hours each day. These are upstream, these can be attributed upstream to the kinds of cronyism and preferences and corruption which comes from affirmative action policies. And I think this is a very regrettable feature of post-apartheid South Africa. It's harming most of all at the moment, the people at the bottom of the past. Is there not some justice to be had even given all of your misgivings about how empirically it really doesn't work out?
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