[ExI] plastic turkeys

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 19/11/2020 21:37, John Grigg wrote:
> I am actually frustrated with my mother because she attended Columbia 
> University, but did not find a father for me there, who would have 
> most likely provided quality genes for high intelligence. Instead she 
> found a "bad boy" who was tall, handsome and entertaining, a war vet, 
> but of very average intelligence, though street smart. And yet I did 
> not even inherit his movie star good looks, despite him being my sperm 
> donor, and the one who most likely constrained my intellectual 
> abilities. His brothers were all very bright, but not him. One of them 
> is even in the IBM Hall of Fame. But then I must remember that every 
> conception is a big roll of the genetic dice... I could have come out 
> very different, in either a good/superior or a sad/horrific way...

John, the way I see it is that whoever that hypothetical different 
person would be, they wouldn't be you. That's my answer whenever I'm 
asked if I ever regret anything I've done in my life. If I had done 
things differently, I would have turned out different, and that 
different person wouldn't be who I am now.

No regrets, either about what you did or how you came to be. Be thankful 
(to yourself) to have turned out as you.

I'm not, of course, saying don't strive to better yourself (that would, 
on this list, be blasphemy :-D ), just don't have any bad feelings about 
things in the past.

-- 
Ben Zaiboc