Reply To: Chivalry & Yiddishkeit: A Foreign Concept

anon for this: Shulchan Orach does NOT make that kind of exception. In theory, if we would know that Person A will do more mitzvos then perhaps. (Just like the Talmid Chochom point I made.) But in practice halacha is that we cannot evaluate Person A over Person B, even if we have a good reason to believe A will do more than B. Halacha must state so specifically.