Friday, January 12, 2007

Why is the world so unfair?

All men are born equal!

We are taught that all men and women are equal. Is this really true? How come women are clamoring for equality? Why some are poor and others are rich? Why are there good and bad people? Why some are beautiful and others are ugly? And the list goes on and on and on... There won't be enough space and time to write down all these questions...

What would the world be like when the everything is fair? Wouldn't it be nice when everybody is rich, beautiful, good and etc....? Seems like too many questions, but the answers are few.

Why so unfair?!! Sounds familiar? You heard this question when you're still a kid and until now you can hear it everywhere, at work or play. For sure, this question has been asked by anyone at least once, even children, in a lifetime.

Is there really an answer to this question? Sort of. This means that when you're born you have eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Period. Beyond those, it's questionable. Why? Because some are born with defective sight (blind), ears (deaf) or something else. Equality is very very limited.

Fairness/equality also depends on the criteria that we set. It maybe fair to ourselves, but unfair to others. We will be happy, and others will say unfair. Bottom line, the world is still unfair.

Try to imagine if the world is fair. What would it be like!? What if everybody is rich? Would anyone want to do farming? Would anyone want to do the cleaning/sweeping? If nobody does the farming, who and how can you feed the rich? If nobody does the cleaning/sweeping, then environment we are in will be messy. If nobody wants to teach, how can we learn?

Seems like small things that nobody wants to do, but would have greater impact in our lives. We just don't take notice of those little things.

hmmm... Maybe it's just good that the world is unfair!!!

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