PHIL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: List Of Students At South Park Elementary, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority
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Preferential affirmative action (paa): hiring/acceptance policy that bumps up members of a group (relative to blind) for reasons orthogonal to competence. Wasp preference; most of class deems it to be unfair. Veteran preference: favor military background in hiring; most of class deems it to be fair. Legacy preference: more likely to favor legacies, pros and cons to this; most of class deems it to be unfair. Arguments for/against paa therefore you need to compensate them by hiring/accepting them. Paa is obligatory, certain groups have been discriminated. Diversity w. r. t: race, gender, class, religion, political orientation, locations, histories, etc. [ ] can be switched out for any diversity w. r. t. P1: [racial] paa improves diversity, in ways that lead to better outcomes in some cases. P2: we are obligated to employ policies that lead to better outcomes. C: we are obligated to employ [racial] paa in those cases. P2 argument is made with utilitarianism in mind. Example: jews in the nba; not good.
