2007-10-18 21:06:42 · 31 answers · asked by Cat Stevens 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No.
The reason is simple. We are not all born equal. Birth defects put some people in great disadvantage and sometimes in terrible pain and early death. I am healthy. That is not fair. This is one example. There are many.
But life doesn't have to be fair. We live in it. So we do what can to find happiness. And even disadvantaged people can find happiness and success. This is certainly a strange world we live in. I cannot claim to know even a fraction of the whole about it. So take the good with the bad and do your best with what you have.
2007-10-18 21:15:27 · answer #1 · answered by Starmark 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Basically life is fair, however there are many unfair
people that made life seem unfair.
When you are Blessed enough to find the fair people, life is fair. Unfair people made life a real
challenge however if one keep trying to succeed
and through the grace of God, get blessed to find
a fair person. I always try to be fair it makes life
so much easier.
2007-10-19 04:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Faithful 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, and it never will be. It's not fair that those African kids were born HIV positive. It's not fair that the princes and princesses in some countries were born royal. It's not fair that some people are born extremely good-looking by many standards while some people are born deformed or sick.
Life just isn't fair.
2007-10-19 04:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by Deftones Girl 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you make it out to be. I heard someone say that experience isn't what happens to you...it is what you DO with what happens to you.
I have had my share of failures and cotastrophies. Most were of my own making and in some cases I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, I'm still here, putting one foot in front of the other. I wouldn't have any other way.
It hasn't been unfair just yet.
2007-10-19 06:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by Hon its'ten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easy answer is no. But I am sure there will be other opinions. The reality is that fair is a human concept that does not exists universally.
2007-10-19 04:10:08 · answer #5 · answered by mario 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is a series of choices. Sure you are going to make some bad ones and usually pay for your parents choices as well, but as long as you learn from those choices you should be able to live a pretty good life. Hopefully you will learn the first time and not have to repeat things in life to get the point. You can't control things that will happen to you, but you can control the result of those expierences. Life is what you make it.
2007-10-19 04:11:39 · answer #6 · answered by Mmgirl 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you are alluding to just and impartial, no, I don't believe life is "fair".
It isn't "fair" that there are many people throughout the world who are hungry every day. It isn't "fair" that thousands of children are abused, physically and mentally, every day. It isn't "fair" that many mothers and fathers have children who are mentally and physically challenged. It isn't "fair" that my two daughters' father is dead, and his fourth wife inherited his estate worth millions of dollars. It isn't "fair" that me and their father divorced after 26 years of marriage, and they and their children had no "family".
There was nothing "fair" about my mother losing her husband of 60 years six years ago to brain and lung cancer, and then her only son two years ago to the same. There is nothing "fair" about my youngest sister's dibilitating stroke, diabetes, neuropothy, or Bell's palsy.
2007-10-19 04:30:22 · answer #7 · answered by Baby Poots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in America. Of course it's fair. If I lived in a country where half the population was starving and had no medicine, genocide was a rule, and future was a long forgotten dream, then I wouldn't even remember what fair was.
2007-10-19 04:12:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Probably NOT! BUT i guess it is God's Will;
everything might happen for a purpose or
even due to our OR even our parents AND grand-parents' sins. My grand-daughter is
is blind, 9 yrs. old, a twin; her sis can SEE, which is fortunate for her Sis. The blind (girl) was born blind (& born 3 mo's premature).
I am and have been sooooo weak; I have
bipolar disorder AND also R.A. (Rheumatoid Arthritis); My Mom has All-timers (Alzhemiers); my Dad's almost Blind;
but there are lots of person's who have Cancer, so God has blessed me and my family - in other ways, including me and 4 siblings are all still living---all in our late 40's and 50's; My Dad's Sis had 5 children also; they've all died now! one, car wreck, one, heart attack; one: mystery, unknown disease; another, (her only girl - was killed and thrown out of a van, after going to nite club; another : had asthma but i'm not sure if that's what killed him, but he died in his sleep! (Doc had warned him that if he did not quit smoking cig's-that he would die --because he had asthma. / note: the one, male that died of the mystery , unknown disease --------i just don't know What that was, but his Mom told my Mom that we could catch ' it ' if we went to see him AND AFTER HE WAS DEAD. ( I wonder what that could have been?)--- ' SARS' ?; i don't think it was Aids.
2007-10-19 04:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. Just as there are many that don't receive what they should there are others who have everything & deserve nothing. As long as it's full of imperfect people it won't be. Since no one short of Christ has ever been perfect I don't expect it ever will be.
2007-10-19 04:13:00 · answer #10 · answered by syllylou77 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋