Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!peterr From: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: egg/chicken chicken/egg chigg/eckin Message-ID: <1252@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:47:18 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1252 Posted: Fri Jul 12 15:47:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:48:07 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 19 >> : 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 {allegra, cornell, decvax, ihnp4, linus, utzoo}!utcsri!peterr