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> You're promoting the false narrative that if someone does better in life it is just chance and nothing That's a straw-man, I didn't say it's "just" chance an
by gnaritas 11y ago
> You're promoting the false narrative that if someone does better in life it is just chance and nothing
That's a straw-man, I didn't say it's "just" chance and it's called a fallacy, not a narrative, and it's a fact, not false. It's a cognitive bias all humans have to attribute their success to their own efforts, and that's what's false.
- isolate 11y agoReality is somewhere between the two positions being argued.
- gnaritas 11y agoReality is those biases exist, and chance plays a far greater role in everyone's lives than most like to admit; that's a fact. The just world fallacy is a fact. Survivorship bias is a fact. These are not debatable points, they're truths and they're true regardless of opinions to the contrary.