Is life "fair"?
Obviously it's a metaphoric question. "Fairness" implies intelligent leadership in the universe. Most of us here assume that isn't the case, but we mostly still tend to see natural events as being fair and unfair. It seems unfair when a young child just starting out in life is killed in an accident or is struck with a fatal disease. It seems more fair when a known no-goodnik is struck by a similar fate. In our minds we know this is just a roll of the dice, but our human souls (don't get excited, that's a metaphor too) can't help but think otherwise.
I have always told myself that the universe looks more or less fair depending on the scale you observe it at. On the human scale it looks terribly random, but if you look at the much larger galactic scale it seems far more orderly and purposeful. If you look at the much smaller quantum scale it looks even more crazy than the human scale with events that make no intuitive sense being the norm.
Do you think life is fair or unfair, or do you think fairness has no meaning in this context?
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RoboGraham
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Jan 3, 2018
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It's up to the individual on their independent definition of what is fair or unfair in their own individual life. Its up to common knowledge as to what is acknowledged as what is fair and unfair in society. The universe does not care it's eternal it knows time to well to care. It began from nothing it can return and Begin again from absolute nothingness. Nothing is the only thing that is forever. It is literally unknowable
Hgrace
Level 3
Dec 28, 2017
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NO, life is not fair. What compensates is the relationships we form AND our own sense of worth.
I_dont_know
Level 7
Dec 28, 2017
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It's not a FAIR question. No matter what life brings, the question is how do we respond or receive it? I have seen joyous cancer-ridden patients and miserable healthy people. My experience has been that every "blessing" (fortune) carries a curse (hardship), and every curse, a blessing. Which is fair depends upon when it or how we view or live it.
rounmidnit
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Dec 27, 2017
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Depends upon what one classifies as fair. If by fair you mean that every single person is born with exactly the same intelligence, attractiveness, drive and initiative, then the answer is no. If by fair you mean that the playing field by which everybody enters this extremely tough, hard knock game called life is even, then in the grand scheme of things the answer is yes.
webbew1
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Dec 27, 2017
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