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> That is what I mean by a false dichotomy. It's not just that life involves both randomness and selection, but that they are not opposed things.

Ok but I don't see why the just world fallacy is a false dichotomy. It is precisely a fallacy, because people don't acknowledge randomness and selection.

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The way a society organizes by merit is through the selection and ranking of qualities that arise randomly.

So it doesn't make any sense to me to say the world is just rather than unjust, or vice versa. Thus, I reject the dichotomy, as applied to the world. Something specific could be just or unjust, of course.

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