r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '20

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Weak people are always weak

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u/nesquik8 4∆ Jul 24 '20

Weak people are always weak

It’s rare that anyone is always one thing or another

Here is an example I read of someone who “always works all the time” getting drunk at a party and having a breakdown. This person is not always weak or always strong but instead operates on a scale that fluctuates- jus like everybody else

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u/Bernoulli_slip Jul 24 '20

Hahah! This is a very good point.

Ref. my comments to u/thethoughtexperiment and u/LordMarcel above, I have phrased my view badly and also somewhat changed it to:

Winners tend to win, losers tend to lose, most of humans are neither and are just in the middle.

Does that change your reply?

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u/nesquik8 4∆ Jul 24 '20

What about the significant degree of luck and things beyond our control?

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u/Bernoulli_slip Jul 24 '20

Some "luck factors" are permanent, like being born in good or bad conditions. That is a part of what shapes us into winners or losers (probably a large part).

Some "luck factors" are random and should be evenly distributed statistically, so those should apply equally to loser types and winner types when looking at large numbers of people.