2006-07-09 02:11:33 · 20 answers · asked by . 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It doesn't seem like it---especially to starving children and those suffering in this world. I don't know if I would call life just or unjust though. It's more like life just IS. Seeing it like that leaves out all ideas of right and wrong and just knowing that living can be hard and life can be "unfair" moves you. You see suffering in the world and you know that you also suffer so you feel compassion for others....and you find yourself moved to help in any way possible. There is a meditation practice called "tonglen" where you breathe in the suffering(yours and everyone you meet) and breathe out peace, love etc. It doesn't replace action but it helps you realize that suffering is universal.
2006-07-11 10:29:01 · answer #1 · answered by .. 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many things in life seem very unfair to people. It feels very unjust when something awful happens to someone good. I think our vision is quite limited though and if we have a view of karmic relationships and happenings over the large scheme we'd see that justness is simple cause and effect. Sometimes it takes years for the effect of our actions to play out, sometimes lifetimes, but to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and it is all balanced out over time. Why is this so? Cause and effect, or karma, is a law we operate under in order to learn to be a cause instead of an effect. It's difficult to fathom that from our myopic vision but as our vision expands I trust we'll see how it all fit together and what appears unjust to us now will make perfect sense and be seen as totally just.
2006-07-09 07:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by CosmicKiss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though I find it difficult to beleive myself sometimes, I do think that life is just. You may be born poor, ill and still be happy and enjoy the little that life gives you, and you may have everthing and still want more, the trick in beleiving that life is just, is to look at what you have, rather than at what you donn't. Always remember that you may have a great gift, like health, but you donn't feel it until you lose it. So think of what you have (even if takes some digging) and enjoy it.
2006-07-09 03:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Hanan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Justice is a human concept. Life is not inherently just or unjust, it just is.
That benig said, no Life is not just. Ask some little kid whose belly is swollen from hunger and malnutrition if life is "just". Ask some guy, drowning in the middle of the ocean, if he has the right to life. Will the ocean listen and cough him up onto the shore? Of course not. Ask a stray dog who used to be someone's loving family pet, who did nothing to deserve being abandoned if life is "just".
2006-07-09 02:18:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, life just is. Justice is a relativistic term, which may ring true for some part of historical time and not for another. Ultimately, there is no justice, only adjustment and if you are lucky, these adjustments will appear to be just to you, during your lifetime.
2006-07-09 02:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is necessary to provide boundaries for an evaluation of the question. It is the boundaries or criteria that determine the answer to the question. Each individuals experiences, emotions and cultural position will provide the criteria for judgment of just and unjust.
IMHO the evaluation of just and unjust depends on how my neurons are firing at any given time.
2006-07-09 02:52:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is just in the sense that randomness determines our time and place of birth ... so we all had an equal chance of being a newly kindled life destined for Dartmouth or Darfur.
It is not just in the sense that access to resources, ability to improve one's lot in life, freedom to express one's self, and make choices about how to live one's life ... those things are not equally accessible to all ... and so if justice implies equity and equality .,. then it is hard to call life just.
2006-07-09 02:24:43 · answer #7 · answered by one_observation 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is just because it is what you make of it.
Whatever path you take, determines if you live a just life.
2006-07-09 02:14:36 · answer #8 · answered by shutrbug13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Just" and "unjust" refer to certain actions (occassionally, lack of action) by moral agents. To be a moral agent, one must be conscious and free to make decisions.
There is no evidence that life is conscious, nor that it is rational.
Ergo, the category "Just" does not apply to life in general.
2006-07-09 02:21:59 · answer #9 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you ask? Being penalised for something?
Yes, life is just. It all depends on you, and how you live your life.
2006-07-09 02:26:05 · answer #10 · answered by speed2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋