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Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro
Wow. What a cunt of a thing to say.
Some people have more opportunities growing up. Less struggles with school and work placements.
Sounds like a fact of a thing to say Glice.
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Fuck off.
Free will is available to everyone or it is not available at all. It is not afforded at the moment you cross the threshold between dog scrabbling in bin to landed gentry. Freedom, should it happen to exist, isn't reducible to some economic commodity to be abandoned when your Ponzi scheme collapses, taking your kids' trust fund with it.
I come from a poor background and I just think this idea that poorer people are 'less free' because the big bad economy made them so is precisely the kind of HORSESHIT that middle-class people trot out so they can continue surrounding themselves with Rothko prints, attending pottery classes and vainglorious patronisation of ethnic minorities.
Yes, poor people don't have the opportunities that richer people do. THAT is a fact. That has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the metaphysical or epistemological status of free will. It does suggest a strong whiff of being a patronising cunt though.