I see the phrase "genetic lottery" quite often. But are your children's genes wholly the result of randomness? https://twitter.com/kph3k/status/1019970364292632576 …
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... It's raw Rawlesian psychosis hiding in the petticoats of a nonsensical metaphor.
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... "Hey, you could have been simply anybody, you know." [Neural empathy module run amok.] "Why on earth would you say that?" "Religious reasons."
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To "win the genetic lottery" just means to have been born with good genes, it doesn't mean your parents didn't have them or pass them on to you. eg https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2oeo41/in_what_ways_have_you_won_and_lost_the_genetic/ … https://www.quora.com/What-is-genetic-lottery …https://www.businessinsider.com/behind-the-scenes-with-the-worlds-most-self-aware-supermodel-2014-7?IR=T …
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It's an implicitly Christian metaphor. Souls assigned to bodies/brains at random.
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@Outsideness's reply with this exact point.
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