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Life is inherently unfair because you don't get to choose the circumstances in which you are born. Sure, you can argue that after that point the universe doesn't give a crap about you, but the starting point matters more than anything else. That's why I regard her quote as surface level and childish.


> Life is inherently unfair

If you want to complain about life being unfair like "an emo 6th grader" that's your choice, I was just pointing out that she wrote the opposite of that. Your original comment appeared to equate her statement with "life is unfair" when that was the opposite of what she wrote (as it was translated, at least). Critique her writing all you want, but critique what she wrote, not what she didn't.


Life is the full encompassing situation you are in. Living is what happens while you're alive. This isn't hard, and that prose is banal regardless of how you want to argue.


The point is that it goes equally for everyone. No one gets to choose the circumstances they're born into.




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