"life is fair, in that it is unfair"?

Question

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..

or can never be achieved." Live and Die peacefully to all. --I have a degree in biochemistry and not one credit in philosophy.

Answer 1

I think you are making sense but in the tangle of words i cannot be sure.

Answer 2

You're saying it's not within the human race to live in a state of peace and fairness and therefore she/he must work at it in order to achieve it. Yet all of our good works fall way short of reaching the goal. So is fairness a carrot on a stick? Or are we missing the true goal. Perhaps humanity cannot do what only the one who made us set us in a state of fairness only to watch humanity greedily reach for more than what was fair and grieve as he kicked them out of that perfect world to sweat it out in a broken world can do. He had a plan that would restore all that perfection because only he could, no human had it in them to break the chain of brokenness.

Answer 3

Fair is not always equal. In general, people don't understand this.