responsibility

I love the idea that one's choices determines one's path. Since one chose decision A, one must accept the consequences and take responsibility for one's choice. It deems of a godlike quality. The chooser is the conductor of the future domain. A little thought and a lot of this idea is not absolutely right. A system favours characteristics. A quick look of some systems in early 21st century clearly show this. Pro basketball seems to favour tall and the lanky people. Pro hockey certainly has favoured those who had the parents who invested time and money into the cost of equipment, the hours of driving to and from practices, games etc. I bet there are few people in post secondary colleges with IQ's less than 100. I doubt few would argue this. So why do we see this argument in people's who have fallen short. I've never heard people complain about short people who refuse to clamber hard enough to take their representative numbers in the NBA. They justifiably don't say Aboriginal's fall short because they have lower IQ's at least those that deem this despicable. They'd more likely say that it is their work ethic, a value they themselves believe due to their own experiences. IQ is endowed while work can be done by most, easily proven by the long barrel of a gun. A lack of work on reservations, a lack of education and a culture where this is the norm, a history of injustice then a perception of being given advice by the same people who displayed those injustices, a yen for keeping an identity and not being melded into the perceived culture who has and is currently viewed as oppressive and racist, even when the current group of people are thousands of miles away from the first Europeans in attitude and civility.