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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]P, "prioritizing" something just means you make it top priority. It doesn't mean there are no other things that are important, or that you don't have to figure out how to balance competing priorities.

The problem isn't that people are caring most about their own kids. You can also care about other kids, just not as much. That isn't unfair unless you are accepting of a set of social systems that works for you because other parents have a differnt experience than you when they try to access it and make it work for their kids. [/quote]
I think it's also recognizing that, in the long run, it's not better for your kids if their advantages are based on an inherently unfair system. Either they will eventually encounter a situation where they don't have built-in advantages and fail, or your setting them up for a lifetime of anxiety where they need to circle the wagons to maintain their status. FWIW, that's basically the reality for most of MC - UMC America today. A system that isn't fair in any reasonable sense of the word, so needs to be propped up by increasingly artificial means.[/quote]

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