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I was thinking this is indeed an issue with SEMANTICS.
Luck is the wrong word. I was thinking about the word CIRCUMSTANCE (though "probability" is probably even better).
You cannot ignore the circumstances something has come from in my opinion. You don't look it as luck or unlucky.But see how that may have influenced things.
Yes, it's also because the word "luck" is too easily loaded with negative or positive connotations (bad luck or good luck). Chance, randomness, and circumstance are better ways to think about it... but dopes like that YouTube commentator are stuck in thinking in terms of "good" or "bad" luck... you'll notice permanent losers often say things like "I just had no luck", not even good or bad, just none... these failure-minded attitudes can easily be recognized as garbage when you consider it in terms of "good randomness" or "bad randomness" or "no randomness". Then it's seen that random events (such as having a random encounter while getting ice cream
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