(March 21, 2017 at 6:57 pm)Aroura Wrote: Also, I don't think people should (or mostly even do) view unearned privilege as "bad". It's just something to try and recognize. Nobless Oblige, as my dad says. If you can recognize that you have some privilege, earned or unearned, you can try and confer some of it to those less privileged, instead of hoarding it entirely to yourself.
As a determinist, I see all privilege as unearned, anyway. We are all equally dependent on the luck of the draw for basically everything. If you recognize that you have more of any thing, including talent or intelligence, then it is your moral duty to do the best things for the most people that you can with it. Doesn't mean you can't do things for yourself (as a matter of fact, you must take care of yourself in order to care for others), you should just seek a balance.
Aka: Taoism.
I believe that it's possible everything may be predermined but to me that just means the earning of something was pretermined, not that it never was earned in the first place.
A person's behavior was pretermined to help them gain things. People might be predermined to go through pain and sacrifice to achieve something but it doesn't mean that achievement was never earned.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
