Sentences with phrase «different accident of birth»
By a different accident of birth, my kids were born into traumatic situations, and now fight mightily to function with neurological wiring that tells them every minute of every day that they are unsafe and everything they know and love could at any minute be taken away from them.
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They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»
People may still hold the same beliefs and values that were held by their predecessors in more uniform situations, but they will hold them in a different manner: what before was given through the accident of birth now becomes a matter of choice.
Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.
True, the difference may have nothing to do with anything other than accidents of birth, or random variation in nature, but they will do different things.