The phrase "life isn't fair" as far as I'm concerned is the biggest cop-out ever uttered by a human being. It's resignation to injustice and inequity. It's surrender to evil and maliciousness. I have a big problem with this sentiment.
The phrase is true. Life sucks. I'm not gonna whitewash it and pollyanna everything. It frankly SUCKS. And I'm not talking about just me, it's for everyone. If I'm given better opportunity and chance in life than someone else, that is wrong. Why be born into a world where you always lose? What's the point of life if you can never truly attain what's good in life? No one has a satisfactory answer for this.
Because it's wrong that one has a better opportunity in life than another based on The Creator's rigged scale of attributes, I always want to help make things better for others who didn't get a proper chance.
Life may not be fair but I'll be d@mned if I follow that. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
"Life isn't fair" Cop-out or not?
2007-11-07 10:19:24 · 7 answers · asked by johnlucas31320 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To ellie: To make things clear, I'm poor but content. My life isn't too bad. And I NEVER look at someone's worse situation to make me feel better. That actually angers me that they have to live worse than I do. But most people don't think like that. Schadenfreude is what people tend to do.
When life isn't fair we create things and systems to allow a fairer outcome. This is whole point of the legal system & the medical profession & any other social setup that allows the less advantaged to get a leg up. I support these things. When I see inequity it stirs me up and I have to at the very least show care and compassion to the disadvantaged. Seeing homeless people angers me when I hear people say this is the best country in the world. If it was you wouldn't have homeless people. Most of them are not there by choice. People wouldn't self-medicate with drugs to escape the hell of life if it was so great. Civilization is rejection of Nature's unfairness. Rebels against the idea life isn't fair
2007-11-07 10:52:01 · update #1
To ellie once more: The fact that grants even exist is because somewhere along the line someone said that isn't fair for poorer people to be denied access to education because of their lower funds. People who tend to say life isn't fair are ironically the beneficiaries of turns of events that began because someone protested that stance. They never realize this. World was MUCH worse 1000 years ago than today. Even 100 years ago than today. People repairing the inequity and unfairness of life made it where the "today" was much better than the yesterday.
NEVER accept this phrase "Life isn't fair". Fight it with all that you got and fair it up for you and those who will come after you. Fair it up in remembrance and in honor of those with you and before you who couldn't receive fairness. At our place and position in this world, we simply have a duty to.
If somebody didn't change it, you may not have had the choice to "engage the university" because of your class, gender, and background.
2007-11-07 10:59:57 · update #2
To William H: I have gotten things I deserved and things I didn't deserve. In fact if not for my late grandmother sacrificing her freedom of life to raise me as a boy my life would have been ruined. And I can never repay her for that so all I can do is pay it forward as the cliché goes.
"There is pain and suffering in this world" A matter of fact statement that says nothing. Who doesn't know that these exist in the world. Are you saying we should accept these things unchallenged? In fact there's so much pain and suffering in this world that we have rationalized it as a noble and necessary thing or skirted the whole issue by making up afterlife fairytales to make ourselves feel better about this crap.
Yeah there's a pain and suffering surplus. Warehouses full of it. Doesn't mean we should be happy or accepting that they exist in such quantities. The ones of lazy minds, callous hearts, defeated spirits are the only ones who lay down for the unfairness of life. Simply put, they got old.
2007-11-07 11:23:54 · update #3
Life isn't fair
I can see millions of children without a piece of bread
Life isn't fair
Children prostitution in all the world
Life isn't fair
Children used as soldiers in men wars
Life isn't fair
Children working as slaves
Life isn't fair
Pedophilia in everywhere
Life isn't fair
must i continue?
john
2007-11-15 07:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were to compare what you have in this world against the little bit that I have and protest LIFE ISN'T FAIR then , yes, you are correct. I applaud your stand.
But, how bout when I want to go to college, don't have the money, and the college is about 1000 miles away and I say these 'blocks' are keeping me from it....I say LIFE ISN'T FAIR...is that a cop out or a statement of fact? All I would need to do to change my situation is to apply for grants, engage the university to help? I do understand that the other use is a cop out. Help me out here!!!!!
Good question...good logic.
2007-11-07 10:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by missellie 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When someone uses that for an excuse to do nothing, yes it is a cop-out and a sign of immaturity.
There are a lot of things in life that aren't fair, but it doesn't mean it has to be the end of life.
You just plod along and keep going and it gets better for a while.
A mature person will know that.
2007-11-07 10:39:43 · answer #3 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wait till you start getting old. Then, when you are suffering everyday, and everyday things get worse, and the only thing to look forward to is your own death, you will realise: life isn't fair.
2007-11-07 12:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by some_pixels_on_a_screen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you look back at your life, do you think you got what you deserved? Everybody who I have ever asked this question, if they were being honest said that they got what they deserved in their life.
There is pain and suffering in this world. Be prepared and you will be better off.
2007-11-07 10:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by William H 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Cop out!
You are who you make yourself out to be and we are all the sum of our own choices. If my life is not what I want it to be, it is up to me to change what I can to make it better. Life may not be fair, but feeling sorry for ones self only makes one a sorry self!
2007-11-07 10:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by jo.rogers72 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well I hate the people that say
The boss isnt being fair.... Tough... Life isnt fair
My parents arent being fair..... Tough.... Life isnt fair
the teacher isnt fair.... tough... life isnt fair
and so on....
2007-11-07 10:27:58 · answer #7 · answered by Miss Rhonda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋