If everyone had equal opportunities, this sort of dumb, naive idealism might hold some credence. As it is, people are extremely unequal in absolute terms. This is not because of genetics though, as human genetics are relatively equal between all people. This is because of the nurture (environmental factors) which have some people born in rich countries and others in poor, some people born in the working class with little access to nutritious food & education while others are born into the capitalist class and have every advantage and every opportunity handed to them on a silver platter.
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ADASport responds:
Interesting. Thanks for the feedback!
Not true at all. It's like Rush Limbaugh thinking women with big breasts are stupider on average. It's the same exact fallacious reasoning, thinking they used up all their attribute points on their tits so that they didn't have any left over for their brains. Or thinking a strong man is just a big stupid oaf. HULK SMASH! Just the other day I came across a youtube user darkmatter5252 who claimed to be darkmatter2525's brother and - well, bottom line, it was PRETTY damn obvious that darkmatter2525 got all the looks AND brains between the two of them. Sure, if you look hard enough you may find something that someone is deficient in, but chances are, the better his attributes are in one thing are, that only serves to improve the odds of the other characteristics. You'll have to look hard to find something he's deficient in. The guy who is a genius at math may very well have an IQ of 140 and if so that only increases the odds that he has artistic skill as well. And if you aren't jealous enough already, you find out that he's 45 years old even though he looks 30, not coincidentally having 3 grandparents who lived to triple digit ages. And he's super-rich. And he also didn't get the baldness gene. And it's not only his parents who think he's a very handsome fellow. And he's shall we say well endowed in other areas. And he went to Africa to help give medical assistance to Malaria victims. And then you meet his screwup conniving stupid ugly bald impotent moocher con-artist brother-in-law who is just the opposite in every way. No, life is not like a RPG where you get to choose your attributes at the beginning and only have so many points to spread around among them, not by a long shot.
Naive. It's simply not true. This kind of mentality is nice, but far from reality, and thus is dangerous. It's a decent animation in terms of visual style, although I've seen better.
Anyway, you don't need me to explain why this is wrong, as I'm sure many other reviewers here already have done so. But don't be so fucking naive. Open your eyes and see that disparity among people exists because of simple principles of Mendelian genetics and probability theory.
It's really easy for the well-endowed in talent to think like this. But it only hurts those who suffer the lower rungs of the ugly truth.
ADASport responds:
+1 for the Mendelian Genetics reference.
Well, that was complete nonsense. The notion that you "get your points distributed" before you're born is plain ridiculous. In truth, those who work to get better - get better eventually, and those saying "I've no talent for that" are just making excuses to not do it. As you rightfully mentioned, people are different. Therefore, equalizing them based on some arbitrary "skill point pool" makes no sense.
I liked the animation, and as for the message... you didn't give it much thought, did you? It was just a cute idea you had and wanted to be true. Good luck with that.
I would like this alot more if the voice didn't sound like it was in a constant state of enthusiastic cumming
ADASport responds:
Is there ever any cumming that isn't enthusiastic?