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Of course it's unfair. It's the definition of unequal opportunity. That doesn't necessarily mean it's immoral or should be illegal, but how could you argue tha
by praxulus 4y ago
Of course it's unfair. It's the definition of unequal opportunity.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's immoral or should be illegal, but how could you argue that it's fair that some people get free money while others don't by the luck of their birth?
- c22 4y agoThe same way it's fair when two people each buy a raffle ticket and one of them wins while the other doesn't?
- wasmitnetzen 4y agoThat's not the same. Everyone can buy a raffle ticket, you can't randomly re-select your parents.
- c22 4y agoI don't get it, everyone can be born. Are you saying that it's the possibility of iteration that makes it fair? So if the raffle enforced one ticket per person it is no longer fair?
- wasmitnetzen 4y agoNo, everyone is born, there is no choice about it. I can choose to partake in a raffle. A forced raffle where everyone has to join is unfair, yes. That's why we have laws, and there is (ideally) no randomness.
- djitz 4y agoHey, I didn’t catch word about the raffle until it ended and that’s not fair
- meibo 4y agoThat's still your fault, you could have read the newspaper in time to look for raffles.
- djitz 4y agoMy parents didn’t teach me to read. You have an unfair advantage.
- chordalkeyboard 4y agowhile literacy is an advantage, its hardly unfair.
- pmontra 4y agoActually nobody selected their own parents or when and where they were born. That's a random selection that cannot be undone.
- thepasswordis 4y agoI work really hard so that I can give things to my children. They’re mine to give.
- praxulus 4y agoSo did my parents. I'm going to be a father any day now, and you can be sure I'll do the same. I don't see how it's "fair" that I was born to hardworking, financially responsible parents, while most others were less lucky though.