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Thread: How much impact does/should 'luck' have on our lives?

  1. #121
    Wait hang on so luck has to do with random chance and events characterised by random chance are eg. unmeddled dice-throws but they don't count if you win money from them because then it would be like a lottery which would not be random or chancey or lucky,

    so basically you might arrive at a "lucky" event if you completely by accident tripped while walking, fell down a slope and, accidentally, through bouncing off of rocks unstrategically placed by a storm, happened to fall into a perfect game of dice played by aforementioned storm and his cousin and before you have time to decide on whether or not you want to play you win according randomly determined rules of the dice-game...

    ... but wait! You decided to go for walk didn't you? And chose to prioritise getting out in a hurry before trying your shoelaces properly? And that leads us right back to your parents deciding to have sex and poof, no more luck, congratulations on your hard-earned dice-money.



    Summary: maybe you're trying to enforce a definition of luck that can't exist, ie. with the goal of disappearing luck in order to give supremacy to human agency, rather than exploring what the concept of "luck" might mean.
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  2. #122
    ????

    I never said the lottery isn't chance? The lottery is chance but you should expect to lose, therefore its not logical to play it.

  3. #123
    Tbh I thought buying a losing lottery ticket wasn't bad luck, it was just expected, and buying a winning lottery ticket was not good luck, because it's expected that someone will win or something and the decision to buy it was not random etc etc.
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  4. #124
    Why do you believe that the fact that there is someone to blame negates it being luck. If something happens to you without you being the one to blame or reasonably being able to influence the outcome to a significant degree it is either lucky for you or not.

    Lets say lightning strikes you on the head can we agree that its luck? Now lets say that due to pilot negligence airplane crashes in to your house, there is someone to blame, and the airplane crashing is not luck, the fact that it was your house it crashed in to is bad luck for you. Whenever you suffer or benefit from an unlikely occurrence without having taking steps that would increase the general likelihood of it occurring to you over the rest of the population the more lucky/unlucky you are. The less likely the event the more the lucky you are.

  5. #125
    I never said the lottery isn't chance? The lottery is chance but you should expect to lose, therefore its not logical to play it.
    Just to be clear we should say our risk to return makes it not worth it to play.

  6. #126
    Risk is incorporated in expected return.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  7. #127
    He could have meant it that way, I just read it as "expect to lose the lottery" not expect to lose money on average.

  8. #128
    Wow, this is more like a discussion about what it means to be a control freak than anything else.

  9. #129
    Are you annoyed that you're not the one moving the thread on a useless tangent for once?
    Hope is the denial of reality

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