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Where exactly did I attempt to tear down family traditions? This entire thread of conversation began with my highlighting the parallels of how the Varana syste

• mlyle 5y ago
  You went on the attack vs. someone who pointed out that you were likely to follow in the footsteps of your parents. It's not a social justice or caste issue to have a probability distribution that says, say, within the trades, that a plumber's kid is more likely to be a plumber than an electrician, and vice-versa of an electrician's kid, when the two professions are of equal status. If there's a whole lot of people below the class of tradesmen who have no real path to moving up-- that is a social justice, class, or caste issue. But surely not all manifestations of not-quite-equally likely outcome are social justice, class, or caste issues. > Though sure, please do go ahead and argue the things that I allegedly said. Seriously, the rush to sarcasm/abrasive language is not helpful to actually figuring out what you're arguing or to having a productive conversation.