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What if they have no power of will? These things can be beat out of a person over their life experiences and genetic predispositions. If it's never been beat out of you it's easy to it on your high horse. As Werther argued in Goethe's, Sufferings of Young Werther, you wouldn't ask someone to get over cancer through power of will.

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Yeah. If you are born in the slums. Your chances are ultra slim. You might as well be a chicken born in Human farms.

This is why we the lucky intellectuals who have time to discuss this over hacker news have a responsibility over those who are dealt with a really bad hand.

https://chomsky.info/19670223/

- The Responsibility of Intellectuals

- Noam Chomsky

- The New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967

A big part of whether or not people have the power of will is whether or not they grow up inculcated in the myth of will power. Asian cultures are very very good at this, for instance. The US used to be very good at it. Yes, sometimes circumstances make it difficult to develop will power. That doesn't mean those people get off the hook for trying.

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