[foogazi]

> Does he think it's random chance that he was not born in a hut in Tanzania?

But it was a random sperm that fertilized a random egg - or do you think his parents made a thoughtful selection there ?

[Gvaskas]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

He is his parents' child. As they are the children of their parents, and they are of theirs.

There is no sperm or egg that could have had him born as a Japanese man in outback Australia. He is the culmination of generations of ancestors' accomplishments, as is the civilisation they have built for themselves and their descendants.

[rickydroll]

I think his point was that parents and children do not choose each other. Who you get is a matter of luck.

> He is the culmination of generations of ancestors' luck, as is the civilisation....

FIFY

Ancestry is hierarchical, but luck and success are a graph laid over a society.