"If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus — more specif… - Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.

Knowledge may be enjoyed as a speculative diversion, but it is needed for decision making.