[praxulus]

Of course it's unfair. It's the definition of unequal opportunity.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's immoral or should be illegal, but how could you argue that it's fair that some people get free money while others don't by the luck of their birth?

[thepasswordis]

I work really hard so that I can give things to my children. They’re mine to give.

[praxulus]

So did my parents. I'm going to be a father any day now, and you can be sure I'll do the same.

I don't see how it's "fair" that I was born to hardworking, financially responsible parents, while most others were less lucky though.

[c22]

The same way it's fair when two people each buy a raffle ticket and one of them wins while the other doesn't?

[wasmitnetzen]

That's not the same. Everyone can buy a raffle ticket, you can't randomly re-select your parents.

[c22]

I don't get it, everyone can be born. Are you saying that it's the possibility of iteration that makes it fair? So if the raffle enforced one ticket per person it is no longer fair?

[wasmitnetzen]

No, everyone is born, there is no choice about it. I can choose to partake in a raffle.

A forced raffle where everyone has to join is unfair, yes. That's why we have laws, and there is (ideally) no randomness.

[pmontra]

Actually nobody selected their own parents or when and where they were born. That's a random selection that cannot be undone.

[djitz]

Hey, I didn’t catch word about the raffle until it ended and that’s not fair

[meibo]

That's still your fault, you could have read the newspaper in time to look for raffles.

[djitz]

My parents didn’t teach me to read. You have an unfair advantage.

[chordalkeyboard]

while literacy is an advantage, its hardly unfair.