do you think life is fair?

Answer 1

Life? Well, life is made up of people, organizations, governments, rules, laws. Are most people fair? Yes. Are most organizations and governments fair? Yes. Are most rules and laws fair? Yes.

So yes, life is pretty much fair. If you work hard, you can acheive your goals.

Bad things happen, like illness, death. But things like that are random, and random events can strike anyone. So the fact that one person gets cancer doesn't make life unfair. Everyone had a chance of getting cancer and it happenned to develop in that one person. Life can still be fair when people die for no reason. Otherwise, the only way life could be fair would be for everyone to die under horrible circumstances or for no one to ever die under horrible circumstances.

Think of a roulette wheel. On a given spin, one number will win and the rest will lose. That doesn't make it unfair. The wheel still followed the rules. Every number had a chance. The outcome does not decide fairness, the opportunity does.

But life is not fair when you are put at a disadvantage due to something about you that you cannnot change (an "immutable characteristic"). Like being black in the US in 1800. Or being a woman in Iran today. Then you may be in unfair circumstances. You would not have the same opportunity as others around you. But being born rich is not an immutable characteristic. You can benefit from having money you didn't earn, but it doesn't mean that life is unfair for those who are born without money.

Yes, generally, life is fair.

Answer 2

Of course life is not fair nor is it supposed to be. A fair is where you go to see farm animals and exhibits.
Life on the other hand is a series of ups and downs, of joy and sadness, of excitement, and pure boredom. There are no set patterns that can be one hundred percent maintained because something will come along as change whether you want it or expect it. There will always be someone or something that does not play fair, love fair, work fair, and it is the nature of just living.
But always make the most out of life and enjoy it to the fullest because the biggest truth is that you are not guaranteed ten minutes from now.

Answer 3

If everyone started off life exactly the same way with exactly the same rules, then I would say life is fair. However, we know that this is not true.

Biologically speaking, life is never fair. Those that have advantageous genetics will naturally have advantages over those that do not.

In either case, life is not fair. Nor can it be. We can do our best to try to even it out but there will always be the haves and the have nots.

~X~

Answer 4

No but you can level the playing field by being educated, understanding your environment and accepting the fact that it is not fair, as insight I offer my own life story, born to unwed parents, Dad ran, Mom abandoned ( both who later went on to lengthy criminal careers) me to abusive relatives, I was physically & sexually abused, became a drug addict, went into our wonderful correctional system and there I began to educate myself since schools abandonded me in the midst of my freshman year of highschool since I was already rebellious and on drugs. After leaving my Club Fed vacation I went to work, learned from every business mentor who I could encounter and now 17 years later am married with a loving wife and have 3 great kids, the oldest an high honors student, also own my own internet based business and by the way I'm a liberal to boot, that's the condensed version but it's the main story that I think counts wasn't fair they bailed on me, wasn't fair I was subjected to the crap I was put through as a child but I leveled the playing field and succeeded beyond what was expected of someone in my situation

Answer 5

I think we impose meaning on life where sometimes there isn't any. At the same time, by imposing that meaning, we sometimes create meaning. This is why according to Christopher Booker, there are only 7 basic narratives in human literature.

http://www.foyles.co.uk/foyles/display.asp?isb=0826480373&TAG=&CID=

I think most people live in anticipation of and according to projected meanings; therefore, even if you think there is no larger purpose or balance - or justice in the universe, you are inevitably going to be surrounded by people who do (or don't). So our world as humans will carry ideas of fairness and unfairness in it. I think a lot of our stories, films and ideals revolve around imposing that idea of fairness and resolution and closure on events that in our daily experience are often messy and unfair. The reason we find a movie like 'Fatal Attraction' entertaining or other moral fables is that we can tell ourselves -- yes there is fairness in life; there are rules - and when you break them, bad things come back to you. When you follow them, you are taken to a higher level of consciousness, which is the core of many religions.

But aside from what we 'want' to happen and in terms of grim reality, one thing I have noticed is that my idea of moral 'fairness' (for example, why don't nasty people get what's coming to them and in fact prosper and get ahead, although this doesn't stop me from thinking the karma police will get them one day) diverges from a real balance that I do see struck in the world. It seems that when one gets one thing in life, something else falls away -- one can have one thing or the other, but not both. Sometimes, very good things happen, but only simultaneously with tragic events. Everything has a price, or there is a negative to match every positive, and vice versa. So there does appear to be a 'push and 'pull' in life. It seems ultimately to be related to how we as humans still relate to and understand the underlying reality of nature and the natural world that dictates our existence. For example, introduce toads to eat insects in Australia, be overrun by toads, etc. etc.

http://www.rotten.com/library/history/nature/invasive-species/cane-toads/

Answer 6

Life is not fair, but you have a chance to have it all in the end.

Answer 7

Life is inherently unfair, we can fight entropy and have temporary successes, but in the long run, the irrerversible trend from order to disorder (as mandated by the all pervasive 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) will always make life seem 'unfair'. Where do you think Murphy's Law came from?...it recognizes this reality.

Answer 8

No, life is not fair. If it was fair, all the good and dear people would not have such a short span of life while those tht do evil have such long prosperous life

Answer 9

life is never fair, only if people try to make it fair, rich people usually get the richness from there family, inheritance. so that isn't fair when people have to work and they don't have to touch one thing, rich people are snobs, only the nice ones should live, ifi had more money, i would give it to homeless people and everyone will be in the average point

Answer 10

Life is not always fair...but that's not the purpose of life. Life is just.

Everyday of our lives we are challenged. But, we aren't given a challenge without also being given the ability to overcome that challenge...and become stronger.