[henry quirk]

"...your assertions...set up a fatalistic defense...and...secures you to them..."

Acknowledging a hurricane is coming up the mouth of the Miss. doesn't bind me to the hurricane...acknowledging the hurricane's existence and what the hurricane is capable of allows me to realistically prepare for it, and, to realistically respond to what it leaves behind: so, no, not really.

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"the other end of the distribution usually doesn't work out so well"

Meaning, I guess, all those folks who chose something other than autonomy.

Hey, one gets what one deserves: Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

He was wrong. Hanging together usually means you get hanged together.

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"real world"

I live in the real world...am up to my neck in it...I believe, however, (and the status of my life is all the evidence I need) I have an awful amount of control over what 'I do' in the world (my actions, responses, cultivating and avoid certain consequences, etc.)...I understand many, perhaps most, folks don't share my perspective...that's okay...each and every one will do exactly as he or she likes and is able.

I just may be 'more' capable (of autonomy).

This is not a crime any more than someone being 'less' capable is a crime.

But: the lesser ability of the other is not my problem to correct or pay for (I have no interest in living in Harrison Bergeron’s world...if you do: more power to you...I, however, will not be hobbled).

The 'occupants', I think, would be very happy to live in Bergeron’s world...other folks would not.

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"That's the whole problem in a nutshell."

No. The problem, as exampled by the 'occupants', is believing the 'rich' can made to care.