[Phys-L] Re: "cutthroat" label

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 04:06 PM 1/23/2006, Daniel S Price, you wrote:
> //
> I am at a loss to understand why hard work is considered
> "unfair competition", and success should only be due to
>  prior experience or accidents of birth.  My conjecture is
> that the prevailing ethic views talent as inherent, and thus
>  out of another's reach, while *anyone* can work hard--
> and thus if anyone does, everyone else has no excuse.
>  Laziness and mediocrity as standards.

This was also a private and "Public" school ethos that
disdained "scholarship" students or swots.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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