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The fallacy that you went to that nice university because you're smart and not just lucky.
by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The fallacy that you went to that nice university because you're smart and not just lucky.
- someguydave 5y agoDo you mean that some people are lucky because they were born smart?
- fallingknife 5y agoThis is the real issue that no one wants to address.
- notSupplied 5y agoYeah I’m with you here. Would it be reasonable to say that hard work should be rewarded? Well…ones propensity for hard work, it turns out, is highly heritable. Either from your genes or from your upbringing. You didn’t choose your parents, nor did you choose your upbringing. So your propensity for hard work is really just unearned privilege. Same line of reasoning can be applied with future orientation, or smarts. People don’t deserve the fruits of their intellect, because they didn’t do anything to earn it. I’m not sure if there is a name for this kind of absurdity, but “Achievement Fatalism” is a nice fit.
- someguydave 5y agoI can sympathize with people who are sad about the inequalities of biology. The trouble is that the best hope for “a rising tide that lifts all boats” is for the top crust of the IQ of humanity to be applied toward fixing real problems. Distracting smart people with stupid fake victim status games literally makes the rest of humanity poorer.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe smartest people I know simply don't find them distracting. They also don't consider them stupid or fake; they have better things to do than argue whether people deserve equal treatment with dignity and mostly do their best to just treat people with equal dignity.