| User | Comment |
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| atugurl | | posted 23-May-2000 2:24am |
who knows........ I called and returned a very expensive dog to someone yesterday.. so I hope I get what I deserve for that LOL *sigh* I didnt get a reward.. but that dog was happy to see his master.. guess that is good enough |
| pcpr | | posted 23-May-2000 3:21am |
Other -- I heard it before and mostly agree with the people who said it that life is unfair and it's a good thing, because most people get more/better than they deserve/it would be fair to them. |
romkey  | | posted 23-May-2000 8:11am |
I think "deserve" is meaningless, at least in the context of "life". Why do people deserve anything of life? |
| icurok | | posted 23-May-2000 8:27am |
What people "deserve" and what people "get" has nothing to do with the other. You get dealt with a hand, you play it. Its as simple as that and no amount of whining "Hey, that's not fair?!?!" is going to make any difference. If life was fair, we'd all be millionares, movie gods or rock stars, just like television said we would - but we won't . Does that make life unfair? (Can't you tell I watched Fight Club recently  ) There are 6 billion people on the planet. Million to 1 things happen every day.. some of them good and some of them bad, and while I would think that an optimist and a pessimist have an equal chance of getting run over by a bus, I think that one's life is greatly affected by one's outlook toward it. |
| icurok | | posted 23-May-2000 8:28am |
Oh yes.. and remember that "Sometimes nothin' can be a pretty cool hand" |
| romkey | | posted 23-May-2000 11:13am |
icurok - why would it be fair for everyone to be millionaires, rock stars or movie gods? |
| anonymous | | posted 23-May-2000 12:41pm |
My mama conditioned me to believe that "no one says that life is fair." Sometimes it isn't and sometimes it is. I live with someone with Aids who is totally sweet and seems the type to have not deserved her fate. But I do believe in the Wiccan three fold law for myself. What you put out comes back 3 times, whether it be good or bad. |
| leemanette | | posted 23-May-2000 1:24pm |
What goes around comes around. You get as you give. Sounds trite, but I believe it is true. |
| jonathan | | posted 23-May-2000 1:25pm |
People who apply "deserve" to themselves or others (perhaps inadvertently) create suffering, usually by wishing to change the past. "She died so young. She deserved to have a longer life." "I deserve a better girlfriend than you." etc. |
| mary | | posted 23-May-2000 3:11pm |
No, what is fair anyway? |
| natsim | | posted 23-May-2000 4:16pm |
I don't know if anyone actually "deserves" anything. |
| mandy | | posted 23-May-2000 4:18pm |
*shrugs* |
Strider  | | posted 23-May-2000 11:07pm |
Did anyone ever say it was?  |
bill   | | posted 24-May-2000 8:11am |
I really should see "Crimes an Misdemeanors" (Woody Allen film) again.
I think this is an internal thing. I think people will sometimes punish themselves for sins they have committed and thus they get what they feel they deserve. Other people, who experience no remorse, suffer no consequences. |
| joachim | | posted 24-May-2000 8:50am |
I think people do "deserve" some things, although it's a human concept and not some natural law. The whole (admittedly baseless, but nice) concept of human rights stems from this idea that people deserve to be treated decently, and I think it makes some sense. Do I deserve to be rich and famous? Not really - but I think I deserve not to get shot because some junkie needs cash. So I think life isn't fair, and there's no reason for it to be fair, but it would be nice if it were and we should all probably try to make it more so. |
Enheduanna  | | posted 24-May-2000 10:19am |
Bill: that's an interesting point. It probably also works for people who punish themselves too severely and thus feel like they get more than they deserve--that life is unfair to them in a negative way. So to some extent fairness would be up to the individual, although it's probably societally conditioned in part. Hmmm... |
| Oscar | | posted 24-May-2000 1:47pm |
Not really |
| Zang | | posted 24-May-2000 5:29pm |
Fair has nothing to do with it.
Do you think objectivity is purple? |
| anonymous | | posted 24-May-2000 5:45pm |
Yes, definitely, a Barney-the-dinosaur kind of purple. And subjectivity is reddish-brown. |
| anonymous | | posted 24-May-2000 5:46pm |
Zang: You don't believe in luck, yet fairness has nothing to do with anything -- these seem contradictory to me. Care to elaborate? |
| Zang | | posted 24-May-2000 7:43pm |
anonymous #3: (Why am I responding to anonymous?) Oh well...Sorry I don't see the contradiction. Maybe you misunderstood what "it" referred to, I used "it" to refer to "life" or "the big picture". That doesn't mean that I don't think that there is a place for fairness, just that I don't think it factors into the equation of the universe...so to speak. How this relates to horse shoes and four-leaf clovers is beyond me.
By the way, it is extremely gratifying to my ego (even from someone who wishes to remain anonymous) to know that someone out there is evaluating and comparing my responses from survey to survey to make sure that my philosophy is consistent.
Keep up the good work! |
| mandy | | posted 24-May-2000 8:33pm |
*laughs at Zang* That was cute go get 'em! |
| supplicant | | (reply to icurok) posted 26-May-2000 3:06pm |
Pessimist "That stupid bus driver probably can't even see over the wheel, I'll just wait for the idiot to go past" Optimist "I'm sure that man will stop for me" *wham* Not so sure the odds are even myself |
| Gamera | | posted 28-May-2000 1:48am |
I don't think that fairness applies to life. I think life is a blanket term to describe the whole set of experiences that a person has- some might have justice in them, and some might not. |
| magbast | | posted 28-May-2000 4:12pm |
most of the time |
