Why Is Life So Unfair?

[Risna]

The more I see the more BS I realize this whole system of "life" is. Some people have it good (like me) and some people are just totally screwed (the poor). Why are some people born with messed up bodies and minds? Why is there suffering? Why is life SO unfair?

There is no peace. People fight wars over the stupidest thing! When we kill a solider, we affect the lives of a hundred people that knew him. People hate one another, more then they love life. We would rather eliminate our "enemy" then try to make peace. We would rather die for a cause then suffer in patience, we will not allow understanding.

There is no justice. When wrongs are done, there is no retribution. Those who play by the rules get beaten by the ones who cheat. People steal and lie and step on other people to get ahead. And then the person who was screwed then steps on another person and the cycle continues.

Is this how life is susposed to be? We survive yes.... but we do not live! We are not happy, and we cant even talk about it with anyone because 90% of everyone else is going throug the same shit as us. Is life just about mediorcracy? Is that the best we can do?

And i am only talking about people in western countries who have a choice how to life. There are billions of people out there who dont even have FOOD! Millions of people are dying ever day because they dont have the basic nessesities of life. Beautifull amazing people, who could become so much are stopped so quickly, their lives extinguished and they are forgoteen, forever....

Here is America there are people who eat more food then they should and then in Asia there are people who are starving to death.

Despite the "amazing" experience it is to be human with our great big brain, it almost seems worthless. We can do nothing to avoid our fate. We must struggle and die but we have it worse then the other animals. We can see the suffering around us, we can understand how it feels and we know we can do nothing about it. The animals are so focused on their own survival they can not feel this pain. Ignorance truly is bliss!

I know there is no way to perfect the system but there must be....a better way then what we have now. Your thoughts?

[The Warrior Hearted]

life is what it is *shrugs*

The only way itd be better is if we all became one big hive mind and even then we'd have headache wars

[Rambhutan]

According to Buddhists suffering is caused by attachments - so I stopped adding them to emails and became enlightened.

[1000 Cats]

We survive yes.... but we do not live!

lol mirror's edge

People forget that although we've surpassed most of them and replaced them with our own, we're still subject to nature's more basic laws. These include the following:
-Conflict is a requirement.
-If there are too many of you, I will find a way to kill you off.
-If I can't find a way to kill you off, I will make sure you kill yourselves off.
-Shit happens for no apparent reason. Maybe there actually is a reason, but I'm not telling.
-With great power comes great responsibility

I'm happy, because I don't give a crap about wars being fought overseas, or children dying in Africa, or rising cancer rates. I say let them fight, and let them put many bullets in each other. Let the nation be all but destroyed; there's many a lesson in that. Let all of Africa starve and die of diseases until they return to the population of a few million that they once had; then perhaps they can build themselves up. Let cancer be a punishment for living too long: consider it a wake-up call that life will always be short, and your time to actually enjoy it will always be limited, no matter what you do.

It all depends on how you look at life, and quite frankly, although it sounds awful to any modern individual, the best way to look at it is with your eyes, and not those of a newscaster.

[Risna]

According to Buddhists suffering is caused by attachments - so I stopped adding them to emails and became enlightened.

I was thinking the same thing last night. Seems like the only path that "works"

[Conserative Morality]

Despite the "amazing" experience it is to be human with our great big brain, it almost seems worthless. We can do nothing to avoid our fate. We must struggle and die but we have it worse then the other animals. We can see the suffering around us, we can understand how it feels and we know we can do nothing about it. The animals are so focused on their own survival they can not feel this pain. Ignorance truly is bliss!

I know there is no way to perfect the system but there must be....a better way then what we have now. Your thoughts?

All people must struggle in their own way. The moment you give up the struggle, you resign yourself and others to 'fate'. We can reduce the suffering of the world, and we can fight against what makes the universe unfair. We may not ever be able to stop it completely, but we can fight against it with all the tools we have developed.

And I'd rather be knowledgeable than happy.

[The Parkus Empire]

I know there is no way to perfect the system but there must be....

The system has to be destroyed! Poverty is a result of exploitation practiced by government and the rich is fellates! We live constantly in the chains of oppression as we're raised to be servants of evil! *burns Cathedral and shopping mall*

[Casta Nal]

It is life, get over it.

[Arkinesia]

Me, I think life is unfair because we live in a fallen, broken world.

[Jakaragua]

CAPITALIIIIIIIIIIISSS-

*Ahem*

Yeah, sad, very sad.

[Wazkyraque]

Who Said Life was supposed to be Fair?
/my parents multiple consecutive times

[Vorradia]

No matter how society is organised, there will always be injustice and unfairness.
There will always be the poor, and lower classes.

Someone has to clean the toilets.


Someone has to run the international corporate giant. And we don't want the guy who cleans the toilets to do it.

[Risna]

I know there is no way to perfect the system but there must be....

The system has to be destroyed! Poverty is a result of exploitation practiced by government and the rich is fellates! We live constantly in the chains of oppression as we're raised to be servants of evil! *burns Cathedral and shopping mall*

I find that very appealing... where can I sign up?

[The Parkus Empire]

No matter how society is organised, there will always be injustice and unfairness.
There will always be the poor, and lower classes.

Someone has to clean the toilets.


Someone has to run the international corporate giant. And we don't want the guy who cleans the toilets to do it.

I would be okay with the people running the corporate giants, cleaning the toilets, actually.

[Vorradia]

The world is a miserable shitscape. Fact.

[Jakaragua]

The system has to be destroyed! Poverty is a result of exploitation practiced by government and the rich is fellates! We live constantly in the chains of oppression as we're raised to be servants of evil! *burns Cathedral and shopping mall*

I find that very appealing... where can I sign up?

You'll have to break a few Starbucks windows first.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

As Freddie Mercury put it, "Life is a bitch."

[The Parkus Empire]

The system has to be destroyed! Poverty is a result of exploitation practiced by government and the rich is fellates! We live constantly in the chains of oppression as we're raised to be servants of evil! *burns Cathedral and shopping mall*

I find that very appealing... where can I sign up?

Dunno if the Symbionese Liberation Army is still accepting new members.

[Keronians]

Despite the "amazing" experience it is to be human with our great big brain, it almost seems worthless. We can do nothing to avoid our fate. We must struggle and die but we have it worse then the other animals. We can see the suffering around us, we can understand how it feels and we know we can do nothing about it. The animals are so focused on their own survival they can not feel this pain. Ignorance truly is bliss!

I know there is no way to perfect the system but there must be....a better way then what we have now. Your thoughts?

All people must struggle in their own way. The moment you give up the struggle, you resign yourself and others to 'fate'. We can reduce the suffering of the world, and we can fight against what makes the universe unfair. We may not ever be able to stop it completely, but we can fight against it with all the tools we have developed.

And I'd rather be knowledgeable than happy.

I'd rather be happy than knowledgeable.

I gain knowledge because it helps me gain happiness. If gaining knowledge made me sad, then I would prefer to remain ignorant.

[Conserative Morality]

I'd rather be happy than knowledgeable.

I gain knowledge because it helps me gain happiness. If gaining knowledge made me sad, then I would prefer to remain ignorant.

Tch, I find being happy isn't everything in life, not that I'm not happy most of the time, mind.

[Aeronos]

Because we're an imperfect species half a chromosome away from chimpanzees with prefrontal lobes too small and adrenaline glands too large, born into a bloody civil war known as the evolutionary arms race for survival and reproduction, onto an insignificant planet with finite resources and finite knowledge, located a few million kilometres from one of 10^26 timebombs, in a universe ripping itself apart progressively by the second.

Life is unfair, and it's our moral duty to make it more fair. Whether you oppose the unfairness imposed by government bodies, or the unfairness imposed by the free-market, we all strive for the same goal: to break the chains that bind us to our ancestors, and create a world that's a better place, for ourselves and our offspring.

[Keronians]

I'd rather be happy than knowledgeable.

I gain knowledge because it helps me gain happiness. If gaining knowledge made me sad, then I would prefer to remain ignorant.

Tch, I find being happy isn't everything in life, not that I'm not happy most of the time, mind.

What point is there in life otherwise?

Everything we do is an attempt to become happier.

[Zeppy]

Because you touch yourself at night.

[Quelesh]

Life is not fair, but I think it is right to attempt to make life as fair as we can make it. Those who say "life just isn't fair, get over it" deny the desirability of fairness. Fairness is an ideal.

[Germania Alliance]

Of course life isn't fair. You have to even the playing fields.

You have to work and sacrifice to make life fair.