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Do people typically say "life isn't fair" about situations that people could choose to change?
Don't they usually say it about situations that they could choose to change, to people who don't have the choice?
I agree, it's usually used as an excuse not to try to change things.
Exactly. In my experience the people who say "life isn't fair" are the main reason that it still isn't.
How did you develop a sufficiently powerful causal model of "life" to establish this claim with such confidence?
i mean that in almost all of the situations where I've heard that phrase used, it was used by someone who was being unfair and who couldn't be bothered to make a real excuse.
Okay, but that is a very different claim. It could be true even while most sources of unfairness in life are other things, not people who bother to say "life's not fair".