Nazi Aktion T4 as 'death by meritocracy'

The Great Chain of Being, as educated Man saw it anyway, was God's ordering of classes of being --- from very imperfect to PERFECT.

Nothingness was at the very bottom, and God at the very top : Man was in the high middle area.

But note the perfect and imperfect were born that way : their perfectness was ascribed ,  not something learned and earned/un-earned by being marked in some merit testing.