Affirmative_Action

Affirmative Action Who Ever Is the Most Qualified When a person is being interviewed for a job, should it depend on their color or sex whether they get the job or not' My reply is it shouldn\'t depend on either of those two things. It should be determined by whether they are the best qualified for the job they are applying for. The effects of affirmative action are hurtful to many people. I truly do not understand why there is such a thing as affirmative action. Louis P. Pojman gives this as a definition; ”Affirmative action is the effort to rectify the injustice of the past by special policies. Put this way, it is Janus-faced or ambiguous, having both a backward-looking and a forward-looking feature. The backward-looking feature is its attempt to correct and compensate for past injustice. This aspect of affirmative action is strictly deontological. The forward-looking feature is it’s implicit ideal of a society free from prejudice; this is both deontological and utilitarian“(420). Just by this definition you could tell affirmative action was not well thought out. First of all you can not change the past. Therefore what ever is being job, should, person, color, affirmative, action, past, just, black, qualified, pojman, being, because, white, thing, make, louis, feature, experience, cannot, both, blacks, bad, wrong, women, whether, way, treated, special, society, skin, same, said, reason, potential