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Things we all have in common.

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CuriousCurtis

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things we all have in common

like we all no someone very close to us who has died
we have all been bullied and/or bullied someone else
most of us have had pressure on them from parents
and even wanted to devie them
everyone wanted to kill someone at some stage
everyone thinks to themselves, "why did i say that?"
"damn that was stupid" "what did they mean by that"
heck we might have even said them to ourselves?
we have all made mistakes

mention some of the things you think we all have in common
people of high class and low class
every gender race and culture.
Don't be afraid to say it if you think some of us actually
do have it in common

-CuriousCurtis
 
RhythmSpring said:
Not everyone knows someone close to them who has died.
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True some people have been lucky thus far in their lives, but eventually we all learn about mortality; that everyone lives and everyone dies - just depends when your number comes up.

Unfortunately for me I have lost a girl friend and half of my best friends through drug overdoses. It fucking hurts bad...I don't even go to the funerals any more. All I can do is learn from it and not put anyone else close to me through that pain unnecessarily.
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
^ I don't understand your question.
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indeed what others have said and a few more things.

if you mean what i mean by father and mother, that is a responsible adult to assist in the developement of a child to maturity, then your assertion this is something we have in common is incorrect in a few ways.
-mothers and fathers may leave and/or die
-quality of parenting varies greatly
-same sex couples can rear children just as well as other couples

if you mean biologically, then yes we are all in common in how we receive genetic information from both a male and a female. however, genes only go so far in the development of a person. it is what one does with those genes and what we go through in our environment which makes a difference.

so by saying we all have a mother and a father is either wrong, or almost as inconsequential as saying "we all enjoy pleasure".
 
ok, to make something of this thread, i'll rephrase MDOA's:

none of us are responsible for the genetic code or social and economic contexts we are born into.

the philosophical import in this is that no one deserves the role they find themselves in. whether that be a position of wealth or poverty, of natural talent or disability, real distributive justice is insensitive to such endowments, and should be focused entirely on ambition (rawls, dworkin, etc).

the trick is the implementation of this. especially difficult is determining what ambition is motivated by in each person.
 
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