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It isn't that winning the lottery is better than being born rich, it's that winning the lottery is better than not winning the lottery. Even if you're already rich, winning the lottery is good. Presumably you weren't born right about everything, which means it's more useful to lose arguments than win them. After all, if you never lose an argument, what's more likely: that you are right about everything, that you're the best arguer ever, or that you simply don't argue things you're wrong about?
My first thought was b). What was the intended response?
Or that you are right about everything that you believe in strongly enough to argue about.
In other words, avoid believing strongly in the absence of evidence. And don't argue where you don't have the facts on your side.
Presumably, not (a). In both other cases you've managed to not notice you're wrong.