I wonder if you'd complain about them grapes if your caste's job was to clean toilets/sewers and nothing else. With no hope or support to pursue any other line of work, irrespective of merit or personal interests. To be humiliated, looked down upon, shunned all your life and be denied access to quality education, water, public services just because of the circumstances of ones birth - and it goes for your children too.
Merit has no basis in the caste system. In fact, it exists only to maintain the status quo. Case in point...
>If you're a warrior, and you have a son, you train him in your ancestral warfare, thereby giving him the best of nature. And if you had begotten him on a warrior lady, you gave him the best of nurture too. Both his genes and his upbringing are designed to bring out the best potential, benefiting both him and society. And your son automatically has a job waiting for him (yours) when he finishes schooling.
The rest of your message lacks logic or signs of empathy for people who'd been dealt the wrong end of the stick. Sure, not all humans are born equal, but to deny ones right to a better life based on social hierarchy defined millennia ago is downright evil.
Probably because it's assumed that reasonable know the answer: othering people and out-group hostility are utterly pervasive, even "natural" human behaviors.
>in fact, all the people crying for meritocracy are going to come running back to this system when they realize it is designed to be 100% meritocractic.
Unfalsifiable claims incoming!
>because it takes into account actions of your previous birth(s), not just the current birth.
You didn't even attempt to hide it. Boring.
>if you agree that not all humans are born equal (some are healthy, some disabled, some rich, some poor etc.), then there must be a reason for it.
Yes. It's how biology works. That's it, no need to order your understanding of the world around how the lottery of birth _must_ be a righteous and perfect outcome.
>If the reason is anything other than 'it is the result of your own actions', and you find that reason acceptable
Again, it's just biology. Whether or not I find it "acceptable" is a total non sequitur.
>then by extension, you have no problem with the government punishing YOU when I steal from a shop, or rewarding ME when YOU save a child from a fire.
Reminder that you've constructed this "logic" upon a total non sequitur, completely divorced from Reality.
>Because you have already accepted that anyone's actions can affect anyone else, or that random consequences can happen to anyone.
I'm not sure this even follows if I were to accept all your claims so far. Which I don't. Because they are very silly and clearly false.
>And as is the case with any ranking system in any profession in any ethnicity in country at any time, it is always the lowest ranks that complain about a lack of equality.
Funny, that. Those pesky inferiors are always complaining about their lot in life.
Claiming cosmic meritocracy as a justification for an _absence_ of meritocracy in the here and now ... it's always a funny thing to see the tortured logic of the truly privileged.