>Luck is just one of many factors in our lives It appears that the other factors you are thinking of are intelligence and temperament. But other people do argu

>Luck is just one of many factors in our lives It appears that the other factors you are thinking of are intelligence and temperament. But other people do argue that these are also luck. People do not choose their personality, and while they may change due to external events, that doesn't mean they deserve credit or blame regardless. You can disagree, but maybe believing in free will is just the sort of person you are and nothing that physically exists chooses to act on itself. Mark Twain wrote about this in the essay "What Is Man", although I don't take it entirely at face value. I suspect that he felt some (maybe subconscious) need to excuse himself for believing in the injustice of slavery but not taking part in the Civil War.