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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
This kind of thinking leads to the conclusion that perhaps if those people are just destined to fail and will never provide any contribution to society......maybe we should just get rid of them. Restrict their rights to procreate and produce more genetically inferior kids who will never amount to anything either.
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Rick, Only leads that way if you want to go there. I would never suggest that. I have no test for one's outcome in life. I think again I have not been clear enough. The immediate genetics of your family may have nothing to do with your outcome. Maybe no one as far back as you can recall was a football star but all of a sudden there you are.
I sometimes look at those Poker world series matches with this view. Sometimes probability surprises everyone.
Moses, Why we struggle to fix their lives really defines us as a whole. The idea of personal accountability and responsibility works for most people, not for all.
Rodeo, I don't agree with your suggestion of our need for intervention. Your case is too limiting. His kids may be fine by their own hands. And I don't jump to the conclusion that he blew it. But I don't pity him either.