BlazeOrangeDeer comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 02 April 2012 05:36:19AM 4 points [-]

Exactly. In my experience the people who say "life isn't fair" are the main reason that it still isn't.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 03 April 2012 09:10:25PM 3 points [-]

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?

Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 03 April 2012 10:51:24PM 4 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 04 April 2012 02:06:21PM *  -1 points [-]

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".