In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children. It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly, rather than hoarded by a minority of monied families.
> In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children.
Well, you're admitting there's no personal cost to your advocacy, which makes sense and I can't really argue you're not entitled to feel that way. Like in criminal justice reform, homelessness advocacy, etc. everyone is a liberal until the first time they get robbed, the first time someone smashes their car window, etc. Personal cost has a way to delivering reality to people who are disconnected from it.
> It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly
If there was no cost to the high performing students to keep everyone in public schools, I would actually 100% agree with you. But limiting the upper percentiles' outcomes to deliver almost negligible changes to the bottom percentile doesn't seem fair, either.
It's going to be very hard to improve society if I cannot convince others to act against against their own narrow, immediate self-interest at least some of the time. Society rapidly dissolves under such conditions. Indeed, can such an arrangement be called "society" at all?
