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"Life isn't fair."

TheAppleCore

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How do you interpret this statement? Life isn't perfect, exactly how we'd like it to be? Or does it mean that all people are not dealt equal hands in life, that some people have "unfair" advantages over others? Or does it mean something else?
 
The confusion comes from what it is.
Does this overused saying refer to life itself, existence?
Does it refer to human life all over Earth?
The life of the person it is being said to?
The life of the person it is being said by?

Life is not fair. Life is not unfair. Life just is. Life is indifferent.

There is no justice or fairness with the cards we're dealt. Life is just like a poker game.
 
Isn't this a statement typically uttered by children who have yet to comprehend that the world is a vastly complex system that will not obey simplistic moral intuitions? Is what you're asking for an analysis of what "fairness" is? Because I doubt that anyone who has thought very much about the issue is likely to feel that "life's not fair" is a very deep or meaningful proposition.
 
Joeof1 said:
It's pretty straight forward. Life isn't fair, so do not expect things to end out how you plan or think they will.
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Life isn't fair, so our expectations are not always met... in other words, our ability to predict the future is not perfect? Hm. Wouldn't have guessed that one.


Vader said:
Isn't this a statement typically uttered by children who have yet to comprehend that the world is a vastly complex system that will not obey simplistic moral intuitions?
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Meaning, bad people don't always get what's coming to them, good people aren't always rewarded, etc.?

Is what you're asking for an analysis of what "fairness" is?
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Yes.


ebola? said:
"Life isn't fair". But I think that it is should be. Maybe we should try to make it so...

ebola
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Perhaps this says it all. :)
 
Meaning, bad people don't always get what's coming to them, good people aren't always rewarded, etc.?
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This reminds me of the Euthyphro a bit; are you so sure of right and wrong that you feel confident that this isn't what's happening?
 
^ I tend to be relativistic when it comes to morality. We all have our own ideas of right and wrong. And of course, all of our varying concepts of right and wrong don't necessarily follow any universal law of karmic repercussion.
 
Life has no meaning of fair.
People have a meaning for fair and the meaning is wholey subjective.
It isn't fair that a lot have a better quality of life than others...
It isn't fair little jimmy has an xbox, when little tommy only has a yoyo...

Life has no quarrels when its sending a tornado to rip down your house.

Fair is no more than an ideology we use when we feel ourselfs or others havnt got, what we feel we deserve.. which is another discussion in itself.
 
ebola? said:
"Life isn't fair". But I think that it is should be. Maybe we should try to make it so...

ebola
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this.

what makes us human is the endeavour to fight against our animalistic instincts and strive for fairness. when you allow your emotions or your biases to engage in unfairness, you fail as a civilised human being.

we all fail sometimes. often, really. but this doesn't mean we should just stop trying.
 
when you allow your emotions or your biases to engage in unfairness, you fail as a civilised human being.
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So if I am to choose to feed one child, and not another, because the my emotions and biases concerning the two are different (because the former is my child and the latter is not), I am acting immorally?
 
life is not fair and it is not supposed to be, because there is harmony to be attained for each individual amongst each other. such harmony is worth much more then everything as equal for everyone all the time.

we mess around make mistakes and allow life to happen.

the folly of grace is the rhythm of jazz
 
Vader said:
So if I am to choose to feed one child, and not another, because the my emotions and biases concerning the two are different (because the former is my child and the latter is not), I am acting immorally?
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when all options are equal, there is no issue. when you deny someone in need for someone in want, then you are being immoral.

btw: i know how loaded these words are. we are speaking generally.
 
Funny this thread got bumped - was just thinking of it the other day. Always interested in more opinions, of course.
 
"Lifes just a blast, its moving really fast, better stay on top or life will kick you in the ass." - Fred Durst
 
Shitty things happen, sometimes deserved, sometimes not, sometimes for a reason, sometimes not

When something shitty happens to a person who didn't deserve it or there was no reason= life isn't fair

Example: children are born in Africa

Lol
 
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