 Re: accident of birth
Hi Vil
Sorry you took my post so badly as to make a very personal attack on me, based on my simple pleading request that you "please, please quote your sources".
The reason posters are requested to quote sources, apart from the Forum Rules (which require sources to be quoted, for the Forum's protection) is that it helps the reader better understand the basis for your comments.
Many thanks for advising that you were quoting "Answers.com". They quote the reference for their comment as "Wikipedia", which is where I came across it.
I'm not sure that I can give many more examples of "accidents of birth" other than the ones already quoted by Wikipedia (in the full article, not just the final paragraph), except maybe, with reference to your earlier comment:
"It is not a geographical accident of birth that determines whether an individual or group is going to be rich or poor,…",
Where you are born, who your parents are etc are regarded as an "accident of birth", as specifically noted by Wikipedia, in the paragraph quoted.
I'm not sure, therefore, that someone born in a village in Sub-Saharan Africa rather than of wealthy parents in the USA would necessarily agree with you.
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Best regards
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