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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (53678)	11/20/2006 10:10:46 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

If one considers luck to be merely circumstances, then we certainly control our circumstances to a certain degree. If one means by "luck" the "random" chance which strikes people for good or bad, then it is probably a conceit to consider ourselves in control of it. I consider living cautiously to be a living skill. I don't consider bad luck to be either praiseworthy or blameable because I consider luck as having a random character. Perhaps we simply use the concept differently.