Unequal RBO

Equality is one of the most intriguing utopias we seek, because it does not exist in anything that pertains to living beings. The main feature of living things, whether in form or content, is their difference. Ethnic, climatic, cultural, and social differences continue to be some of the main reasons for the problems and solutions we have to live with. There is a group of theorists who, whether for love of utopias or for interest, preach equality and seek to enforce it with the determined use of power by the so-called disadvantaged , who are the majority. These political groups use the electoral support of the numerical majority; thus, a qualitative minority dominates elective public offices and seeks to impose an equality that is always based on the lowest common denominator. We see this in our area of interest, education, with the creation of so-called racial quotas, which, based on the fact that some ethnic group has the largest number of disadvantaged , provide that all those belonging to this group are considered incapable and therefore protected through advantages in the university admission process, for example. The able members are also stigmatized with favoritism, which will mark of all professionals from the " protected " ethnicity. The titles of expertise in numerous areas of medicine are now conferred after an internship at one of the excellent public hospitals from the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde), which goes against decades of refinement that the medical societies have gone through to improve their qualifying exams. Even qualified residencies are suffering from this harmful influence, as for each year of militancy, working in family healthcare under the More Doctors program, a percentage increase is bestowed upon the score of the candidate's entrance exam for a good residency program. Thus, the medical graduates who spend one year attending to Programa de Valorização da Atenção Básica (PROVAB) in healthcare centers that are not equipped for basic health-care will have an 10% advantage in their residency admission score against their " non-peers " who sought to complement their medical training at the end of their course, as has been the case for over 50 years. The latest foray is in the area of educational curricula, which have been adapted to lower levels, so that the " disadvantaged " could compete on equal terms with the most talented. This would be similar to the …