Do You Think This Is Fair

When do you think life is fair?

I think this question can be seen through a tangential question: “Why do bad things happen to good people, and how is that fair?”There really is no “fair” in the world. Hard working deserving people lose their pensions to corporate fraud, dedicated parents lose their children to a genetic predilection to cancer. And that's not fair. But, for everything lost you always get something in return. Maybe it's a lesson learned, like never to put all your eggs in one basket. Maybe something dark and horrible happens to you, but you gain a perspective on life and the ability to empathize with other people who have been through similar ordeals.The world can be clearly unfair, but it works in a one-for-one exchange. Call it conservation of energy or call it karma, or whatever. But for everything you lose you will gain something back. In that way life is fair in count, not in magnitude. Who knows why it's that way.

Do you think the tax you are paying is fair?

The honest truth (and largely unspoken) is nobody thinks tax is fair, whatever the level. Tax is theft, as the old saying goes.So that leaves only one reality:— How tolerable the tax we are paying, and the answer for most people in my experience is “tolerable for now.”

On a scale of 1-10, how fair do you think life is?

Its subjective.You think life is unfair because someone less deserving got what you wanted?We have a tendency to compare ourselves with others. We plan our lives according to how others are living. And when we are not able to pull that off, this inferiority makes us think whether life is fair to us or not. You actually don’t know the story of the person who is more successful than you and yet you make judgements that life is unfair.And the successful ones, they don’t care whether life is fair or not, they just keep working till they get what they want. They don’t whine about life being unfair.Stop wasting time thinking whether life is fair or not, because even if you come to know that it isn’t, you have already wasted your time and you are screwed.

Do you think God is fair to everyone? If not, why?

I know some people deny the existence of a just God because there is evil and suffering in the world. There may or may not be a just God but the presence of evil doesn’t prove it either way.Let’s take your question about a fair God. Suppose tomorrow God is going to give half the people in the world 1 million dollars and the other half 999 thousand dollars but nobody knows this except God.Today God gives half of the people in the world 1 thousand dollars and the other half nothing. (The half that are getting a million dollars tomorrow get nothing today.) Is God fair? People are going to think he isn’t because they don’t know everything. They might think not getting a thousand dollars today is a big deal but compared to a million dollars a thousand dollars is not much.Now let’s take evil and suffering and death. Suppose I live to be 100 years old but some child dies before their first birthday. Is that fair? It appears that it is not, but what if we don’t know the whole story. What if we both actually live forever? Is 99 years in this life very important compared to forever?There is undeniably evil and suffering in the world but what if there is much greater good and evil that we don’t know about because we only know about this world? What if the small evil and suffering in our world produces a greater good that God knows about but we don’t yet?My answer is that we don’t know if God is fair to everyone but I have no reason to believe that he is not.Let’s go further and assume that no God created us or the Universe. Is it fair that some of us are born rich and some of us are born poor? It seems to me that in that case we all had the same chance to be born rich and it was the luck of the draw. I think people think that lotteries are fair even though not everyone wins. I guess that all of us having the same chance to be born rich but not everyone is, is also fair.

Is everything fair in love and war?

“Everything is fair in love and war.”When you need to do the most heinous of the acts you will be supporting the above statement because if everything is fair in love and war you can:Cheat your partner who is in love with you and say the above line.Kill whomever you feel like and be content because you know everything is fair in love and war. Like this one; Teen Love Triangle Murder CaseUsing deceit and trickery as a way to attract your partner.But there is a different side to this line the side which we usually don’t see; sometimes in life there are overwhelming situations. Which we can not judge on moral values.In war:SpyingKilling other human life in the name of patriotism or just to defend one self.TortureLyingMaking deal with enemiesBombing CiviliansIn love:In the name of true love you can wreck havoc.Break hundreds of heartIn situation that are not explainable love is not very different to war a person will go mad in love and kill someone or commit suicide in the name of love as if they have lost everything.At last I want to mention that this phrase is used as “more of an excuse” rather than a statement.I hope i have answered your question.Namaste.

Do you think it's fair for children to be compared with their classmates in terms of academic excellence?

It depends on the subject and the mission of the school. In the US, for most public schools, it is considered fair. Absent that, it isn't fair to top students if everyone gets an A. That's called “grade inflation”The way it is handled in the US is that most high schools offer different level classes - CP, honors, AP, etc.Harder classes with greater rigor give a 5 for an A, whereas lower level courses give a 4 for A. This is just one possible example.So two students could have the same unweighted average, but the one who takes harder classes will have a higher weighted average.