By R.B. Parrish
Something strange happened along the road to Utopia: we ditched the supremacy of individual rights in favor of "the greatest good for the greatest number."
One manifestation of this was affirmative action. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Justice Powell wrote:
There is a measure of inequity in forcing innocent persons ... to bear the burdens of redressing grievances not of their making.
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