I still enjoy the story of the actual book but these people don’t understand that the best you can do is say everyone has equal opportunity. As Sowell has said numerous times, life is a lottery. You can be born to a drug addicted mother or you can be born to billionaire parents. Those who have more and care are always welcome to voluntarily donate, tutor, or whatever. Volunteering is free.
Life is a series of choices, you get out of life what you put into it. You may not be able to control what happens but you are 100% in control of how you react (paraphrased from something Larry Elder’s dad said).
Honestly as a kid I hated to hear that life wasn’t fair, but that is a fact. Some people will have better access and opportunities. Teaching young people to blame nebulous forces for their shortcomings is dangerous
As Sowell has said numerous times, life is a lottery.
No. Your birth was not an accident. You are the product of the deliberate choices made by your parents, and your parents were products of the community and culture surrounding them. If your parents worked hard to provide a good life for you, and my parents fucked off and screwed me over, then our respective lots in life aren’t some arbitrary “lottery”. It’s just cause and effect, with plenty of blame to go around.
This compulsion to blame “society” for all disparate outcomes is really a subversive movement to separate children from parents and people from cultures. Advantages of birth are mostly earned, and the state redistributing those advantages is always communism. Why should the child of a crack whore have the same advantages in life as the child of two hard working parents? And what becomes of society when you artificially flatten those advantages in the name of equity? Why work hard for your children if their heightened productivity is just going to fund someone else’s shitty kids?
You can be born to a drug addicted mother or you can be born to billionaire parents
It's not a statement trying ignoring genetics or parental impact on a child and saying it's all random. It's a framing that only really works if you believe in a soul as the defining feature of a person. The "lottery" aspect is looking at it as if you're a soul about to be born onto earth. Then which parents and their circumstances are the random part.
It's just saying you didn't pick your parents and have to work with the opening hand you were dealt.
If you don't accept the framing then the sentiment doesn't make sense. The crack whore's kid could never have been born to the hardworking parents and vice-versa. In that case there's no possibilities because there's nothing comprising "you" before birth.
I still enjoy the story of the actual book but these people don’t understand that the best you can do is say everyone has equal opportunity. As Sowell has said numerous times, life is a lottery. You can be born to a drug addicted mother or you can be born to billionaire parents. Those who have more and care are always welcome to voluntarily donate, tutor, or whatever. Volunteering is free.
Life is a series of choices, you get out of life what you put into it. You may not be able to control what happens but you are 100% in control of how you react (paraphrased from something Larry Elder’s dad said).
Honestly as a kid I hated to hear that life wasn’t fair, but that is a fact. Some people will have better access and opportunities. Teaching young people to blame nebulous forces for their shortcomings is dangerous
No. Your birth was not an accident. You are the product of the deliberate choices made by your parents, and your parents were products of the community and culture surrounding them. If your parents worked hard to provide a good life for you, and my parents fucked off and screwed me over, then our respective lots in life aren’t some arbitrary “lottery”. It’s just cause and effect, with plenty of blame to go around.
This compulsion to blame “society” for all disparate outcomes is really a subversive movement to separate children from parents and people from cultures. Advantages of birth are mostly earned, and the state redistributing those advantages is always communism. Why should the child of a crack whore have the same advantages in life as the child of two hard working parents? And what becomes of society when you artificially flatten those advantages in the name of equity? Why work hard for your children if their heightened productivity is just going to fund someone else’s shitty kids?
It's not a statement trying ignoring genetics or parental impact on a child and saying it's all random. It's a framing that only really works if you believe in a soul as the defining feature of a person. The "lottery" aspect is looking at it as if you're a soul about to be born onto earth. Then which parents and their circumstances are the random part.
It's just saying you didn't pick your parents and have to work with the opening hand you were dealt.
If you don't accept the framing then the sentiment doesn't make sense. The crack whore's kid could never have been born to the hardworking parents and vice-versa. In that case there's no possibilities because there's nothing comprising "you" before birth.