2007-10-19 13:40:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Neither...life IS...simply, inescapably.
Your choices determine whether you find it fair or foul.
2007-10-19 13:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not so much if life is fair or not. Rather, if life is about me or not. The answer is obvious not about me, it is about something greater than one individual or a collection of people. When you look at the larger picture, you see that life is not fair, nothing happens to us fairly. One is rich or poor not because they deserve to be but because where they were born and the opportunities that were given them.
The young boy who achieves greatness as a basketball player may think life is fair but if it were, then, many others who deserve the same chances would have been given that opportunity
Life for him may not be any better than the people left behind in the poverty and slums. You can take the boy out of the slums but you can't take the slums out of the boy. . You're still there in the slums even if your address is in Windamier Florida with 17,000 sq foot home. Life is not fair to you or the ones left behind.
However life is not about you, it is about God and our care for our fellow man. Our blessing are given to be a blessing to others. If you forget that your still in the slums you just have a new address.
2007-10-19 21:10:33 · answer #2 · answered by Panda Lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fair is a human construction. When we humans try to impose one of our constructions on something we neither created nor fully understand, we just end up disappointed. Ask a bird if life is fair. Or a tiger or a fish or a cow. Eliminate humans from the planet and the issue of fairness would not exist. Life is a gift. We should live it and accept it with all of its joys and sorrows.
2007-10-19 21:43:40 · answer #3 · answered by c'mon, cliffy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life may or may not be fair. It's just a difference in perspective.
Simply put, its the way you look at a glass half-filled with water. whether it's half-full or half empty??
One should be capable enough to face the consequences of the actions and decisons that one takes... without blaming others for it...
that makes life pretty much fair!!!
or as the adage goes "Life's not fair, but life's not fair for every one, that makes life fair" so, enjoy it to the fullest!!!
2007-10-19 20:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by mib99 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think life was met to be fair. I feel it's a place of journey and we have a lot of lessons t learn. The first being-humans are the source of each others pain so don't blame god. if everyone cared then no body'd cry-but obviously not everyone cares because people are constantly crying and instead of pointing the finger at the source of their pain; they point it up- I know 'cause I sometimes do it but I'm still learning life lessons.
2007-10-19 22:03:03 · answer #5 · answered by Honest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is so unfair. It is not what you thought to have. Questions are really drawn in our minds why things are this and that. Indeed life is a mystery. You have to make your own life to make it fair with you. Life depends on you. You are what you are. So if you think life is fair then so be it. I believe this is the nature's way what life should be.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day!
2007-10-19 20:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everyday about 30,000 children die around the world from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases, in other words for having been born in the wrong place.
No, life is not fair. It is only the people with nice lives at the top who like to pretend they somehow deserve it. We have no control over where we are born, the genes we are born with, our personalities, what species we are, who our parents are, etc. By the time you are old enough to be responsible for yourself you have already been molded by forces beyond your control. Nobody deserves what they get.
2007-10-19 21:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What means "fair"? Is it a description of a large, rural get-together where all of the folks from several miles around show off their prize livestock and the women see who can bake the best bread, pie, or cake? Or is it a word used to describe a beautiful person or object?
Doug
2007-10-19 21:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Brook, I am theats, same question I asked days ago, and the answer varies and almost unending. And every answer is right in each one view but I find many lacking in the real essence. But here is what I see.
Everything comes to pass, people live and die, here now and gone will all be, generation comes and generation go, , man strugle to live and dies after his labor and soon he is no one. He eats enjoy triump, fails and be gone.
Many just live for this life on earth but some live to be wothdy of another life, a life that is waiting, a life thereafter.
As for me? Life here is to be good, as one grteat teaching says " love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your streanght and with all your heart and love your fellow as you love your self"
This law encompasses all the meaning of life, life not only here but a life after this life.
2007-10-19 21:17:47 · answer #9 · answered by theats7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not.
We live on a sinful world. The evil ppl may get away with evil here. The good ppl may have bad things happen to them.
Children are killed, abused. Good ppl die young.
None of it makes any sense to me unless I believe in Heaven.
If this life is all there is. . . . . why not just step on as many ppl as possible in order to get what I want?
2007-10-19 20:46:55 · answer #10 · answered by pansyblue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is not fair and was never intended to be.
2007-10-19 20:58:12 · answer #11 · answered by God Told me so, To My Face 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋