I Love It When A Plan Comes Together: Thoughts on Predestination
When I was a kid and played sports, the only people who got trophies were the people who actually won something. Now everyone gets a trophy just for showing up. But despite the love-fest of indiscriminate trophy distribution at my children's awards ceremonies, everyone knows who the star on the team is. Everyone knows which team beat all of the other teams for the entire season, even when the league officials fervently avoided keeping score. We may all want everyone to get a trophy and feel good about themselves, but we know that not everyone deserves one. We also know that life isn't fair, and that sometimes even when we work hard, play hard, try hard and want something hard... it doesn't always go our way. I've noticed that the kids who tend to perform better than their peers at sports, scholastics, you name it, also tend to complain about the seeming lack of fairness inherent in the "Everyone's A Winner" approach. Because we all know that n...