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fatslob-:O said:
It just has to be that way right now and for no particular reason ... Winners and losers are definitely not decided at birth ... What you do does matter in life regardless of the differing advantages each person has. My family was at the lower end of the household income scale but today I can see a realistic path to being a multi-millionaire whereas I see nothing other than a dead end for my sibling and the path between me and my sibling only diverged half a decade ago ... (In that small amount of time our prospects in life changed drastically!) There can only be a few who will prevail in this world and as such winner's must come at the expense of loser's ... (You see this all the time competition and should see it in the console wars too.) "to the victor belong the spoils" ... |
Your life does not matter to statistics, just tossing that out there. So let's see some proof, people.
On the idea of winners and losers. I don't think anyone is really advocating that everyone should be in the exact same situation in life, obviously some can and should do better than others. What many of these protections are about is how bad should the lives of those "losers" be. Should they have healthcare in times of need, should they be able to afford to have kids, should their children have access to education in order to have a better outcome than their parents, or are all of these things that are reserved for the "winners" in life? Does your being a winner require you to smash the losers beneath you into the dirt or can they just have a worse but still reasonably livable life than you? These are the questions I think one should consider when besmirching those who don't accomplish as much as they do.
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