If they raped you, starved you/fed you paint chips, beat you to the point of brain injury, tortured you? How about being born in a place where the pollution is so bad that you’re likely to get sick/die from with a very high probability? Places that are completely ravaged with drought or famine? Places where genocide is fairly regular? Where your parents are so destitute that they are forced to feed you the absolute worst food (or even non-”food”) so that your brain/body never develops properly?
Of course, for people/places where rape/forced childbirth is prevalent or the knowledge of how pregnancy occurs is still non-existent, it’s understandable. For places where the former isn’t and the latter is, there really should be no statute of limitations on blame.
The quote is good, but should be understood to apply only in certain contexts (i.e., to people who weren’t born into horrific conditions and who live(d) in a place with something resemble equality of opportunity.) Not understanding this perpetuates the idea that “everything that happens to you is your own fault” that appears in some popular strains of political thought today, when it clearly cannot be universally applied.
I came up with quote for a closely related issue:
“Don’t let the fact that idiots agree with you be the sole thing that makes you change your mind, else all you’ll have gained is a different set of idiots who agree with you.”
Naive people (particularly contrarians) put into a situation where they aren’t sure which ideas are truly “in” or “out” or “popular” may become highly confused and find themselves switching sides frequently. After joining a “side”, then being agreed with by people whose arguments were poor in support of something good, they find themselves making an argument like “Wow. So many idiots support this! There’s no way this can be good.” only to find out after switching sides again that the same thing keeps happening. Why? It’s because there are likely complete fools who support every cause you might consider good.
Bottom line: consider arguments on their merits, and avoid automatically thinking that they’re bad (or good) simply because of who believes them or the (bad) arguments made on behalf of the idea. That’s difficult, but if you don’t, you wind up with situations similar to Eliezer’s.