Ok young lady lets start with the 'I believe'.
You are, of course, entitled to believe anything you want to. Freedom of thought. You are not entitled to assume your beliefs to be a true or ideal representation of the state of the world.
'4 possible purposes to human existence'
Good, you used the word 'possible' which shows that even you, the author, thinks that the following statements are suggestions, not absolute truths.
'1) Personal happiness'
I doubt anyone disagrees with that, but it is not linked to intellectual achievement, is it?
'2) Maximising the happiness of others'
Ditto my last response. How does calling someone a 'pet monkey' achieve this, exactly? I'm very interested in your logical reply.
'3) Personal Achievement (as in knowledge)'
Personal achievement can also be measured in parentgood, a race well run, a garden well-tended, a beautiful poem etc. Knowing something you didn't know before is only one form of achievement. I happened to discover a new mathematical truth at the age of twelve. This in no way made me feel as much personal happiness as watching my grandson being born.
'4) The advancement of society's aggregate achievements'
As you have placed this as number 4 is this a) less, b) more or c) equally as important as the above? It is not clear from your post. Are the criteria equal, random or in ascending or descending order of importance? Please explain. Anyway, e.g. clean streets are an important part in the above. If you remember your history you will recall that it was the construction of a sewage system that cleared London of typhoid, not anti-biotics. A sewage system designed and built by engineers and construction workers, not doctors.
'5)The pursuit of Justice'
This is not achieved in the courtroom. In fact, courts are a last resort in a situation where the pursuit of Justice has manifestly failed. If humans were perfect in their dealings with each other a legal system would be unnecessary. After all, justice starts in interpersonal dealings. Even my grandchildren have to deal with issues of justice when the sharing of a toy is under discussion. We do not call a lawyer!
If you see the above responses as 'illogical' and 'visceral', so be it. I appreciate that it is tough to let go of deeply felt (visceral? 
) beliefs and hard to see the logic in an opposing argument. But please try. Nowhere in your belief system as outlined by you is there room for the judgement and abuse of others according to intellect. Please reconsider your attitude to those less fortunate than yourself. That attitude does not reflect well on you which is a shame as I like to believe that you might not be really as bigotted as your postings on this thread would suggest.
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Well done, very impressive. 
With those scores I bet you sailed through the LNAT. 
I'm sorry - but how exactly is A* or A positively ***? 
http://www.competition-law.ox.ac.uk/unde...eria.shtml
Application: motivation and capacity for sustained and intense work;
Reasoning ability: ability to analyse and solve problems using logical and critical approaches, ability to draw fine distinctions, ability to separate the relevant from the irrelevant, capacity for accurate and critical observation, capacity for sustained and cogent argument, creativity and flexibility of thought and lateral thinking;
Communication: willingness and ability to express ideas clearly and effectively; ability to listen; ability to give considered responses.
Throughout the admissions process, tutors will be seeking to detect the candidate's future potential as a law student. Existing achievement (as revealed in official examinations, predicted examination results, and school reports), as well as performance in the written test and interview, is relied upon mainly as evidence of future potential.
I do not consider perfectionism a flaw, I consider it to be a positive quality. And I don't see how having no respect for people who achieve nothing is imposing perfectionism onto other people.
Then I'm afraid that I have to give up. If you really cannot see the connection
then you probably think that the whole of English Law since Magna Carta is a farce.
Perhaps you should buy your own island with all the huge fees you'll get from your equally amoral corporate clients, buy a flock of sheep and found your own dictatorship.
BTW, has it not occurred to you that the only reason that you are on this board boasting of your academic achievements is because the very same uneducated non-achievers you despise so much fought for your equality?
If not for them, we females would still be excluded from further education and the vote. The reason your age is important is because we 'older ladies' remember being barred from many careers solely on the grounds of being female. OUR mothers had to give up careers on marriage. Many were sacked with no redress after WWI and WWII to provide jobs for returning soldiers. Women STILL only earn 60% of men for the same work, and most are still excluded from higher paid careers. And that is in the western capitalist countries. You wouldn't hold your current views if you were 60.
Oh, yes!! And:
"Come down from there, girls mustn't climb trees!"
"Why not?"
*Whispers* "Everyone will see your knickers."
"Can I wear trousers then?"
*Shock* "NO! Girls don't wear trousers!"
And freezing my bare knees in winter as a result. 
I LOATHED dolls, couldn't see the point in lining up miniature plastic corpses and 'playing tea'.
My dad was on my side, though, and I had a HUGE toy car collection!
I agree. Brought up to be strictly polite, at WHAT POINT was I supposed to say no? I had absolutely NO idea about flirting (I do now! ) or what anyone meant with their body language. I was totally lost.
Girls these days (luckily) have so much more freedom and information. I don't envy them - I wouldnt go back to being a teenager again! 
- so I'm pleased that they have more opportunities. I just wish that they were told WHY!
I did not say that the suffragette movement was not an achievement, or that consideration should not be taken for the generation people were brought up in and what opportunities they had. But to do that they had to have ambition, the desire to do something with their lives other than bring up children. They had to educate themselves at home. Formulate plans of how to change government policies, go against the crowd and fight for what they believed in. They could not have done that without some intelligence and knowledge. Those children sat in a special needs school who can't feed themselves, can't use a toilet and can't communicate could not have achieved what the suffragettes achieved. Great achievements require other qualities besides intelligence to make them happen, but they cannot be done without intelligence. And the more intelligent a person is, the more power they have at their disposal if they choose to use it.
I despise my mother for not going to university in a generation where people had fought for her opportunity to go, and where she would not have had to have paid any of the costs herself. I do not react the same way to my grandmother being forced to drop out of grammar school to get a job in the war. But this is 2007 in the UK. It would be different in 1940, it would be different in Uganda. But in 2007 in the UK I do not think expecting someone to contribute to society at least as much as they take from it constitutes too much to ask or constitutes perfectionism. People have opportunities. It might not be a perfect system but people have free education, free school meals, and social services. There are opportunities for adults to brush up the skills they missed when they were young. They have more opportunities than any generation before them, and working class people from those generations became successful and contributed, so I don't see what's wrong with expecting them to today.
Do you not see the difference between wishing that something is so, and despising people, including, for heaven's sake YOUR OWN MOTHER for not reaching your exacting standards?
Please stop. You must realise by now that absolutely no-one else thinks that it is OK. It is not OK under English Law. It is not OK under common decency. Your attitude to other people verges on the inhuman and yes, that attitude is exactly what led to Hitler's pogrom on the Jewish people. Remember, he started with the very people that you equate with monkeys.
Instead of abusing those less fortunate than you, why not vow to use your intellect to improve their lot? Now that would be a useful and long-lasting contribution to society.
... my remarks are not motivated by disability but by stupidity.
And on that, I believe, we can all agree.