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== [[Real Life]] ==
* There have been feminists who demand that the standards to becoming a firefighter be lowered so that more women can join, prompting massive protests from women who measured up to the original standards.
** In general, there have been complaints from various minority groups that standards in a profession be lowered so that those minorities can join the profession in question. This usually leads to effective racism, in that some people outside the profession think ''all'' minorities in that profession are not as competent as the non-minority professionals.
* Conscription has this effect on armies. The army is forced to accept many barely fit recruits who don't want to be in it either.
* Jokingly mentioned by [[Dave Barry]] in regards to universities being so desperate for students they now accept people they wouldn't have allowed to work in the boiler room.
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