I am a chemist and a part -time philosopher and have derived a theory.....my thesis is "life is fair, in that it is not fair"....check out what I am about to type........people always complain about how they get screwed in life even when the are trying to be model citizens, whether they get screwed financially, emotionally, physically, or what have you. But, since life is not fair, people have the tendancy to achieve a state that does not exist, it is in our nature. For example, if life was fair, the human race would not have the inspiration, motivation, willingness, or the capacity to live with fairness because it is a current state in which people live in and DO NOT have to make an effort to strive to KEEP society fair. Therefore, life would become unfair, deathly, unlivable, and lastly mundane. And the conclusion lies in the statement....."we must work towards an effort to achieve a state of fairness in order to make it fair, once we fail orlose perception of this goal fairness is..
2006-10-21
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