[markdown]

> Accepting OBE, on the other hand, is equal to becoming a member of a caste system.

No, it's like receiving a Nobel Prize, or a Medal of Honour (or any medal, really).

An organisation awarding a prize to someone who has done something remarkable for his fellow men.

[mariusz79]

The titles given are taken from the aristocratic system that's still alive and kicking in the GB. And while OBE does not give the recipient anything special besides titles, heraldic supports and order of precedence, one could argue that it's supporting the aristocratic system. If you accept a title, be it sir or knight, or whatever else there is, you indirectly accept that the person with a higher title is above you, even if they did not earn that title with the hard work like you did, but simply by being born into a right family. You accept being a royal subject, , and you accept that the king or queen, are not your equals but your rulers.

In any modern society we have titles, and honors but they have to be earned.

President, general, senator is your equal, selected for their office based on the skills (I know that a staggering oversimplification, and a very naive point of view) not based on the birth right.

[Angostura]

> one could argue that it's supporting the aristocratic system

One could. But most people would disagree.

[mariusz79]

Let's eat s*. Billions of flies can't be wrong!

[dfc]

To say that this is "like receiving a Nobel Prize, or Medal of Honour(sic)" or the Victoria Cross is absurd. There are 1,946 MoH recipients (excluding civil war recipients when it was awarded under different conditions), 1,357 Victoria Cross recipients and 876 Nobel Laureates. In one year "more than a thousand people have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours."[1]

[^1]: With one thousand awardees this seems more like an Eagle Scout Badge or

[markdown]

Yes.

Like an Eagle Scout Badge or a Medal of Honour.

Doesn't matter how many people get it, my point is that it's a reward for either doing something positive or achieving something remarkable.

[dfc]

The Medal of Honor and/or Victoria Cross are not rewards.

[markdown]

Jesus Christ dude, you're missing the point completely.

Read the comment I originally responded to.