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They aren't laws. Free will, persistence, a determination to make one's life better, are things some people have more of than others, and things that one's pare
by ams6110 9y ago
They aren't laws. Free will, persistence, a determination to make one's life better, are things some people have more of than others, and things that one's parents might have encouraged more than others.
Why? Who knows? Why are some people taller than others, or more athletic, etc. People are not all the same.
- jacquesm 9y ago> Why are some people taller than others, or more athletic, etc. People are not all the same. Genetics and environment.
- AstralStorm 9y agoToo glib and trite. These things can change, and are affected by us. Three key here is that collectively we have the power to fix things yet we do not collectively exercise it enough and build systems that make it harder.
- jacquesm 9y agoYou don't change your genetics in any meaningful way during your life no matter how much you want to influence them. If you're born with Down syndrome that's that. A predisposition for getting certain kinds of cancer tend to be born out by statistics. Having a body that works well for athletics is mostly a function of genetics and training. No amount of collective work is going to make everybody athletes, the whole definition of an athlete is 'outlier'. What we can change collectively is education and diet.
- AstralStorm 9y agoI meant as a society. We have the power to fix many of these things but we choose not to exercise it for allegedly ethical reasons and the economics. Genetics are not a life sentence either except in the most complex cases - genes are activated and regulated by the environment. Sometimes even environment in the womb. Not just diet. Exposure to chemicals and mother's illnesses too. Or main limitations here are ethics and lack of knowledge, both self imposed.