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Comment author: fubarobfusco 01 February 2013 06:07:18AM *  4 points [-]

neither aesthetically pleasing nor fun to live in

Please be careful not to treat these as one-place functions. Consider the position of a person who is now being told that despite their and their teachers' and parents' best efforts, they simply have not accrued enough "extraordinary achievements" to make (say) medical care for their chronic pain an "appropriate reward" for them. That person may not agree that this makes society more aesthetically pleasing or fun to live in.