Yes that's exactly waht I believe. People make choices, those choices are what defines their success or failure. The rest is just life - and guess what - life ain't fair.

[ Wow, i sure wish i could take 100% credit for my position in life. If I was born a millionaire, that makes me implicitly successful... I sure made a great choice about where to be born.

Sorry, I think your position fails the test of logic.

As for life not being fair, isn't it sad to think we have no power to make it more so? I believe we do, and that it's ethically proper to do so. Truly meritocratic systems do not exist when the underlying system codifies inequalities in opportunity. -k]

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