Today's Debate..

Today's debate was pretty interesting. Hearing other people's opinions and hearing the objections against them were kind of fun. The debate was whether Affirmative Action was needed because Barack Obama is now president. There were many different opinions as to whether it was needed or not, and Basinger helped us along the way by providing good arguments for the pro and con sides of the debate. I have one question, however: Say there's a family with a set of twins. They are both the same ethnicity and they were both risen up in the same manner. However, one twin actually attempts to do well in school while the other twin does not. They both end up getting the same grades and do not have the ability to pay for college. Would it be fair to give both twins the Affirmative Action when only one actually tried? Would it be fair to deny the Affirmative Action to the twin who has the will to actually try in school? Imagine if they were White, African-American, Hispanic, Korean, Salvadorean, whatever you want to fit in this argument. I'm actually on the fence for this debate, which is why my question goes to both sides of the argument.