The Dangers of Lowered Standards

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13">This doesn’t just stop at the above. Imagine airline pilots who don’t know much about flying but got in based off of some affirmative action program. As someone who flies a lot, I almost have a heart attack when I get on a plane these days. I then let out a sigh of relief when I hear the pilot’s voice over the intercom and it is clear it is an older gentleman who has probably been flying for years. The problem is though, these gentlemen won’t be there forever, and as society moves towards less of a merit based system I fear for my safety as well as the safety of other people who rely on professionals in their fields to perform vital services where one wrong move equals death.I remember my Scoutmaster doing a closing statement at one of our weekly scout meetings years ago, in which he talked about the importance of perfection in certain fields. I don’t remember the exact words he said, but the message was how some things in life can’t be imperfect. You can’t have an imperfect doctor, an imperfect pilot, or an imperfect surgeon. This used to be the rule for years, but come the onset of liberal policy where everyone has to be included, the powers that be have disregarded this. They believe that it doesn’t matter if we let people into certain fields based off of their skin color or gender because in their mind anyone can do these things, it is simply the racial or gender barrier that is stopping them.Then we come to the eventual lowering of standards for entering into t

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hese fields. My father was in the US Navy, where he did search and rescue. He would go out in helicopters and rescue people at sea. According to him, the training was very tough. It had to be, rescue work at sea is a tough job that requires very high levels of fitness. Not everyone can do it. Come to find out, he went back to his old training grounds and found that the standards to which he was held to during his time has been dramatically lowered to recruits today. I’m not blaming the new recruits for this, it is not their fault, but how can we be certain that the quality of Navy search and rescue operations is at the same level as it was during my father’s time?This circles back to the maintaining of complex systems. We are training an entire generation of people who are supposed to maintain these systems with lowered standards. Of course, the only ones to blame for this are the ones who set these standards in place, no matter how good natured it seemed at the time. As more and more older professionals start to retire, I worry that we will see more problems with the quality of life in the west.Though there is always the possibility that I and Mr. Beagle are wrong. I hope that is the case. I don’t want society to break down. I quite like living comfortably. Sadly, a worrying pattern is emerging that I hope we can reverse.Battle Beagle’s X Account: <a href="https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog">https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog</a></article></body>

The Dangers of Lowered Standards

I was scrolling through twitter a while back and I saw something I thought was very interesting. I follow an account by the name of Battle Beagle, and he has been bringing up a good point as of late. The point being that society is reliant on the maintaining of a web of complex systems. I wish I could put a screenshot of the actual tweet from months ago when he first started talking about it, but if you follow him on X you will notice that he brings it up on occasion in his beagle like way, so I recommend following him if you are on the site.

This maintaining of complex systems relationship to affirmative action is quite simple: as more and more people are brought in to the professional world on characteristics alone without merit, the less knowledge they will have in being able to maintain these systems. Think of what people go to college to study. They are our future doctors, engineers, architects, political thinkers, scientists, and more. Imagine, if you will, the end result of affirmative action policies on these fields. It should scare you. We do not want incompetent doctors or surgeons. We cannot have imperfect engineers and architects designing and building our structures. We cannot have computer programmers who cannot maintain computer systems.

This doesn’t just stop at the above. Imagine airline pilots who don’t know much about flying but got in based off of some affirmative action program. As someone who flies a lot, I almost have a heart attack when I get on a plane these days. I then let out a sigh of relief when I hear the pilot’s voice over the intercom and it is clear it is an older gentleman who has probably been flying for years. The problem is though, these gentlemen won’t be there forever, and as society moves towards less of a merit based system I fear for my safety as well as the safety of other people who rely on professionals in their fields to perform vital services where one wrong move equals death.

I remember my Scoutmaster doing a closing statement at one of our weekly scout meetings years ago, in which he talked about the importance of perfection in certain fields. I don’t remember the exact words he said, but the message was how some things in life can’t be imperfect. You can’t have an imperfect doctor, an imperfect pilot, or an imperfect surgeon. This used to be the rule for years, but come the onset of liberal policy where everyone has to be included, the powers that be have disregarded this. They believe that it doesn’t matter if we let people into certain fields based off of their skin color or gender because in their mind anyone can do these things, it is simply the racial or gender barrier that is stopping them.

Then we come to the eventual lowering of standards for entering into these fields. My father was in the US Navy, where he did search and rescue. He would go out in helicopters and rescue people at sea. According to him, the training was very tough. It had to be, rescue work at sea is a tough job that requires very high levels of fitness. Not everyone can do it. Come to find out, he went back to his old training grounds and found that the standards to which he was held to during his time has been dramatically lowered to recruits today. I’m not blaming the new recruits for this, it is not their fault, but how can we be certain that the quality of Navy search and rescue operations is at the same level as it was during my father’s time?

This circles back to the maintaining of complex systems. We are training an entire generation of people who are supposed to maintain these systems with lowered standards. Of course, the only ones to blame for this are the ones who set these standards in place, no matter how good natured it seemed at the time. As more and more older professionals start to retire, I worry that we will see more problems with the quality of life in the west.

Though there is always the possibility that I and Mr. Beagle are wrong. I hope that is the case. I don’t want society to break down. I quite like living comfortably. Sadly, a worrying pattern is emerging that I hope we can reverse.