Do you think the world is fair?

Question

In the fact that it is unfair to everyone.

Answer 1

Yes, the world is ultimately fair, in that both justice and injustice are visited upon everyone. Good and bad, happiness and distress, health and sickness. Everyone in the world suffers the three-fold miseries: Misery we cause to ourselves through ignorance, defiance, or selfishness, Misery others cause to us in the form of bodily harm, deceit, and manipulation, and Misery visited upon us in the form of natural calamity such as tornado, flood, earthquake, fire, and disease. No one can escape these miserable situations, and therefore the world is fair.

Answer 2

Fair in the sense of beautiful? Yes, breathtaking. Fair in the sense of evenhanded? Yes. Matt. 5:45, God makes the sun shine and the rain fall on good and bad alike. And everyone dies, no exceptions at all. What could be unfair about that?

But fair in some comic book, not like real life sense? No. Life is what it is. If you've somehow acquired ideas about how it should be that are different from how it is, well, it was here billions of years before you were and will be here billions of years after you're gone. Get a little perspective.

Answer 3

This sort of puts me in mind of the carnival. I never understood why they are called "the fair" when clearly nothing about the "fair" is actually "fair". Nobody really comes out ahead,ya know? anyway to techinacally answer your question,I guess that life is not fair. I say this because it is unfair to everyone at some point. If it were fair then it would even things out and be fair to some and,unfair to others. The world just spins us round and round like the carnival rides....sorta.

Answer 4

The fundamental unfairness is obvious. Depending on where you are born or who you are born to, you may grow up like royalty and enjoy all the fruits of civilization, or you may have a hardscrabble existence, wear yourself out in child labor, or just die from starvation and disease, while producing goods for others to enjoy.

In a very limited way, some situations are fair. But they are artificial conditions. The human condition has always been unfairness.

EDIT: There is a myth that if you are strong and clever, you will survive and prosper. The corollary assumption is that the poor deserve to be poor, since they are obviously "not strong and not clever." This is a barefaced lie. The poor in India, for example, do extremely well in our society when given a chance. They become physicians and attorneys. I believe we should defy the stereotype of the "stupid poor" and see them not as beasts but as humans, with all the potential that implies.

Answer 5

Of course the world isn't fair. Didn't your mother tell you that as a child? You work hard to get ahead and the day of your great interview, you get a gigantic cold sore right in the middle of your top lip. It's things like that that remind us of the unfair nature of the world.

Answer 6

No, but that is the whole point to life is to try and make your life not so chaotic, I guess that is why people are so boring doing the same thing everyday, everyone at least once in their life wishes that their life would turn out right, but what would be the fun of living if it did? Variety is the spice of life.

Answer 7

Life isn't fair. The world is just messed up.

Answer 8

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 9

The world is the world, don't blame a peice of earth.
(I'm not saying you are, btw.)

I think that everything happens for a reason. I'm not christian or catholic and religious etc, I just think everything happens for a reason, and we should just roll with the punches and go with the flow.!!

Answer 10

No.. the game of life is rigged.. the weak and foolish sink.. the strong & clever survive..