... "Think of all those animal breeders trapped in lunatic schemes to trick the genetic lottery." "Totally. And thank goodness human mating isn't selective."
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
... [Stopping now before I literally asphyxiate in my own sarcasm.]
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Replying to @Outsideness @Steve_Sailer
Are you serious? The idea behind the genetic lottery metaphor is that children don't get to choose their own genes, not that parents have no control over their offspring's genes.
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Replying to @salonium @Steve_Sailer
How is that anything like a lottery?
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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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I agree that the expression isn't used the way it might if we designed it ourselves, but idioms mean what people use them to mean, not what we think they should mean. Nick's tweets imply that Harden is at fault because she's used the common meaning that he didn't know about.
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Replying to @s8mb @Outsideness and
"idioms mean what people use them to mean"...not precisely. doesn't matter if Paige uses it one way and everyone else understands it to be another. why not change the name of the book to avoid confusion over the term?
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additionally, look at how Paige uses it in the recent NY Times article. that to me implies random-ness, which is the problem with the term in the first placepic.twitter.com/lcV908LOTs
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Questioning Post-Theistic Ultra-Protestant idioms is like burping in church.
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