I don’t get how it’s lucky without a counterfactual. Could I have been endowed with different genetic traits and still been myself?
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Replying to @RyanKhurana @Outsideness and
Can you not imagine a counterfactual where you were taller?
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @RyanKhurana and
But the main point is clear. Genetic traits are undeserved. If you have undeserved good things, then you are lucky. Lottery winners are lucky. Hence the saying genetic lottery.
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @RyanKhurana and
This is entirely upside down, in Protestant-communist fashion. In fact, you are roughly what your genes deserve.
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Replying to @Outsideness @RyanKhurana and
This is gibberish. What your genes deserve? What does that even mean.
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Replying to @Sam_Dumitriu @RyanKhurana and
I wholly agree that it's nonsensical religious language (which you introduced).
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Replying to @Outsideness @Sam_Dumitriu and
Sam your view here depends upon “imagining a counterfactual”. This is metaphysical nonsense. I see no counterfactuals, only facts. No alternative universes, only this one. No “luck to be born x”, only the fact of being.
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Replying to @jahskillen @Outsideness and
I’m not sure if that’s the issue here. Counterfactuals are essential (things could have been other than they are since not everything is necessary), it’s just that the genetic lottery depends on a form of counterfactual that’s incoherent.
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Replying to @RyanKhurana @jahskillen and
Would you be a different person if due to taking psycho-active drugs you started speaking incomprehensibly?
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Unfortunate in the quaffing psychedelics lottery.
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