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There's a danger when playing with words like this.

Privilege is bad. It's something we, as society, should strive to eliminate. When you say education is a privilege, what is the message there?

I understand that the OP, and you, are trying to convey a message of this type: I should be thankful that I get X, not everyone in the world gets X, and I will try to remind myself that X should not be taken for granted. Where X is education, but it can also be clean water, or maybe just the right to live, or the right to not go to a reeducation camp if you criticize the "dear leader".

I subscribe to that type of thinking.

I just don't think that using the word "privilege" is the best way to express this idea.



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