# Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347 "2020-10-06T15:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 810
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/810 "2021-01-27T10:25:39Z")
> [@Hellestal](#): > > The offer of turkey or ham is certainly a different set of choices, but for a vegetarian, it still represents an unacceptable and unjustified narrowing of what should reasonably be available. The assumption here, of course, being that vegetarianism is an unalloyed good that _is_ a reasonable alternative _with no downsides_ > People can still read what you wrote. Yes, and…? > [@Hellestal](#): > > You were openly incredulous and even disparaging that people might prefer, and have a right to, choices that don’t show up on your favored menu. I’m not incredulous, selfishness isn’t a strange phenomenon to me, but I am disparaging, yes, that people would only frame things in terms of handicap rather than benefit. It’s true what they say - When you’re accustomed to _privilege_, equality _feels like_ oppression. Here you are, framing things in terms of “rights”. Kids have a right to education, they don’t have an additional overarching right to special treatment. > [@Hellestal](#): > > You don’t know this. I do know this. And not because I’m a trained earth scientist, but because I’m an observer of human nature. If people remain greedy and selfish assholes, all the tech in the world is just going to be used to prolong the inevitable. > [@DemonTree](#): > > Why are you so incredulous that kids would volunteer to learn extra calculus, then? Because I was a kid, I’ve taught kids, and I have kids. _Absent adult encouragement_, what normal kid prefers extra calculus lessons over socializing? I will grant that there _are_ kids who would, but I think they would strongly skew to those having some kind of social disorder. And I’m only talking about normal kids. Special needs kids are a whole other topic (although “keep them with their peers as much as possible” is also the answer there) . --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347)._