Right, Steven is talking about something else... in many ways, affirmative action has created the false notion that two wrongs make a right... this too is wrong..... there is a phenomenon called 'taking the Aboline Trail'... this occurs when a group of people come up with an idea that sounds great at first, but it's never really fully examined... so, the project is put into motion and the project gains momentum... at some point, still early in the development of that project, some of the group discovers fatal flaws in the plan, that they're simply going in the wrong direction... but the project is already under way and the decision has already been made, and the momentum of the group has grown to the point where the project cannot be stopped or re-routed, therefore any and all critical defects and warning signs along the way are ignored and denied... but rather, the group builds extensions and annexes in order for the plan to work, but it only makes the project more cumbersome and even less effective... this happens a lot with committees and group projects when the group mind has already been made up, yet continues down the wrong path, the Aboline Trail... the Challanger disaster is a first-class example of the result of this kind of phenomenon... I think affirmative action may very well have been wonderfully intended, but I think to continue on the current path is to take the Aboline Trail....
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