Full Idea
The ideology of equal opportunity seems fair to many people in our society because it ensures that people's fate is determined by their choices, rather than their circumstances.
Gist of Idea
Equal opportunities seems fair, because your fate is from your choices, not your circumstances
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) [1990], 3.2)
Book Reference
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.56
A Reaction
Is it that we surmise that people have 'free will', and then engineer a situation where it can be exercised? Is it that the rest of us don't want to feel guilty when someone else's life goes awry (because it was 'their fault')?