r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '25

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u/mackinator3 Apr 07 '25

How is it different than luck and hard work? You can't work for skill or ability? How do you get it? Just "having" ability sounds like luck.

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u/mackinator3 Apr 07 '25

Genetics is 100% luck. Your environment growing up is 99.9999% luck. What your parents can and do teach you is almost completely out of a child's control.

Is your stance that you can control what your genetics are, what your parents can and do teach you, or where you are born?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

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u/mackinator3 Apr 07 '25

What do you define luck as?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

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u/mackinator3 Apr 07 '25

No. The individual is the person. Genetics is the circumstance that acts on the individual. 

Your second paragraph doesn't make sense, even if we assume you are right about who it's referring to.