Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
Genetics still plays a very important role in how good of an athlete you can be so even in the real world it is a lottery. If you weren't born with the right body potential for sports, you'll never be a world sports champion no matter how hard you train.
Of course, we're all somewhat limited by our nature... but "you're too naturally talented for this to be fair" is not fair so much as enforcing mindless mediocrity. No matter what field you point to, select individuals will rise far above the rest. While others will have setbacks in their life and never have the opportunity to try. That's just reality.

The "fairness" of something isn't supposed to be based on meeting some impossible absolute average and then assessing the individual based on some voluntaristic paradigm, to grasp their... I don't know, Spirit? Some non-material basis for human ability? it's to take a newborn child, knowing nothing about their particular traits and abilities, and ask whether X is within their reach presupposing they desire X. This anonymous theoretical newborn could have all the potential in the world - you don't know - and they can be born in any circumstances to any parent.

The "unfairness" of bloodlines is to suggest that because you're born to so-and-so you will obtain X regardless of your individual abilities, or that those similar to or of greater capabilities as individuals don't matter because the blood - or name its attached to - is the merit itself. Nepotism, generally. Though super-powered universes can make it a genuine necessity.