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From: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: egg/chicken chicken/egg chigg/eckin
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:47:18 EDT
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Reply-To: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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>> : me (peterr@utcsri)
>  : Jim Robinson (robinson@ubc-cs)
   : me again

>>I use "equality of opportunity" with some trepidation.  Does it mean that
>>if I decide to do something, that I will encounter only those obstacles
>>that everyone else does?  Or does it also mean that I should have the
>>same degree of *belief* that I can succeed at that something?
>
>I tend to think of the first part of the above when I think of "equality
>of opportunity". If that is fulfilled then it is just a matter of 
>time before  the second part will be fulfilled as well.

If it were Jim Robinson that were disadvantaged for "just a matter of time"
(which may well be decades if not generation), then he might see the
situation as somewhat more urgent.

peter rowley, U. Toronto
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