Definitely for a post to receive upto 50+ merit from an individual, the person that merited the post must be very impressed with the post.
I agree with you, but there are many posts out there that are not qualified but get a lot of awards
Dude I disagree with you. Merits are given to only quality Post.
Then we get into the concept of "quality".
Sometimes a small piece of information, which apparently is not a big deal, for a user can be very useful. For that user, it makes sense to give a merit.