Is Life unfair?

[spiderman2]

Of course life is unfair. You have some people that can spend time and time trying to find a new job or a job and get no job. The you have other people that don't spend much time looking and are not really qualified for jobs and yet get a new job. You have some people that tend to have a issue with stuff breaking on them all the time yet other people have like nothing break on them. Then you have people that eat well and yet have a lot of health problems. Then other people that eat like crap but yet don't have health problems at all. Then you have people that are born with health issue and other people with out health issues. Then you have people that die at like the age of 5. Then you have people that have bad parents.

 

[Silliminite]

Life is unfair. Everyone has different starting points. It would obviously help for people in privileged positions to try and level the playing field.

 

[AnneFan]

All I know is life is worth living. The good parts make up for the bad.

 

[Reek]

If life was fair....the first post would be condensed so that people would read it.

In my experience, those who don't want to take 3 minutes to read a long post are uneducated swine.

Seriously though, people are freaking lazy either way you go about it I guess. I know I'm guilty of just reading many headlines and never bothering to read the actual story. That's why these stupid clickbait articles are everywhere and get reposted by morons on social media.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So far it seems maybe one or two people have actually read the article as opposed to just answering the question.

 

[Chesterfield]

What is life? And how can it choose or decide to be fair? It's like sayin that the sun is nice. It's not nice, it just is. Life just is, it doesn't abide by a code of conduct. We do.

Are you fair?

I immediately read this hearing the Merovingian's voice.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I immediately read this hearing the Merovingian's voice.

You know what's not fair? The lady in your avy went to the same high school I did but a few years after I graduated. Had I been there we could have such a grand old time.

 

[Reek]

sexual harassment lawsuits are always a grand old time

 

[Chesterfield]

Well, I hear in some instances she can be quite generous towards her fanbase. That grand old time isn't an impossibility.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I've seen some pics from her high school days and she was a pretty big dork. She def came into her own though with a little help from a plastic surgeon.

 

[Lencho01]

Life has no referees.

 

[Teelie]

Life itself is just there. It's mostly the people in it who make it unfair.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Helps if you guys read the article on the first post.

 

[Teelie]

I don't want to read it though.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

READ IT!

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

What if karma doesn't kick in until your next life.

Like your whole life you are building karma wealth or karma debt and you get to spend it during the next life.

Like right now Mother Teresa is some billionaires favorite child and she has a huge dong.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

So far it seems maybe one or two people have actually read the article as opposed to just answering the question.

DJ, we're on the hype for recreation not to do a school assignments nobody asked for.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

DJ, we're on the hype for recreation not to do a school assignments nobody asked for.

I just thought the article was very well written, it posits that most of us have a flawed conception of what fair is and why we should get certain things essentially saying that because we are all self-serving we usually fail to take into account the grand scheme of things.

 

[Anita18]

There isn't really such a thing as "fair" or "unfair" or even "rules". Nobody really "deserves" anything or has "worked hard" for anything. There really isn't such a thing as a "good" person or a "bad" person.

Humans just kind of made all this B.S. up. Nothing else in nature cares.

The Universe will do whatever it does, and there's zero reason for it.

Pretty much my exact philosophy about life. A big reason for my happy-go-lucky demeanor. I determined for myself long ago, that I will measure my life by how much I help people. Nobody's telling me I have to do anything, I decided that.


Also, the OP's article has a very, very weird definition of "fair." I wouldn't use the word "fair" for what they're describing - I'd use the word "entitled."

Cause if nobody gets 100% of what they wish for (and nobody does!), that's pretty fair, isn't it? Cause nobody gets exactly what they want! We're all equally losers!

But expecting that the world give you exactly what you want...that's entitlement. Totally different.

Going through life with an attitude of "I'm entitled to"/"I deserve" X because "I did Y and Z" is very harmful, to others as well as yourself. I have a friend who's like a sister to me, and her entitlement is consuming her. The thing is, she doesn't blame the world for not getting what she wants, she blames herself. That's a fast track to depression, for sure.

 

[C. Lee]

Helps if you guys read the article on the first post.

I told you they wouldn't read it......by the hairy hoists of Hogarth....I know all.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I told you they wouldn't read it......by the hairy hoists of Hogarth....I know all.

 

[Teelie]

Hogarth is close to Hogwarts so yes he is.

 

[KevanG]

Life seems to be unfair to DJ due to no one reading the article.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

At this moment I tend to think so

My job sucks
My home sucks
I'm not confident
I worked my ass of for degree that's worth sfa
And I constantly have to see the greatest person I ever met and be reminded how I screwed up with her

But here's the thing you get on with it, it's **** but you keep wading because the alternative is lying in the cold ground and there is no coming back from that and as my grandfather once said

It will take the army's of hell to put me down completely

 

[Spider-Aziz]

So far it seems maybe one or two people have actually read the article as opposed to just answering the question.

My advice:
Don't read the whole article, just read the title and subtitles, and look at the graphs.
For this article, it's best to do that, cause a lot of the text is useless.