"Life isn't fair." - The motto of those who don't care about just how unfair life has been to someone else.
"Life isn't fair". I hate that saying so incredibly much. It can't be defeated because it's technically true. It's true because it makes itself true via its use and application by those who say it. In that way, mankind has used this saying, or at the very least the concept it represents, to justify the allowance of the suffering of others with no moral strings attached. By simply making the observation of the self-fulfilling statement that "life isn't fair", some morally angelic people have effectively circumvented their sense of empathy/remorse/guilt and released themselves of all their responsibility as "decent" human beings to care about the suffering of others. How very convenient.
This is yet another example of how the presence of a sense of empathy/remorse/guilt has necessitated a destructive rationalization to get around the emotional and psychological pain that would result from applying empathy/remorse/guilt rigidly, absolutely, and without qualification, as though they were somehow a set of rules meant to govern your actions. Hmm.
Again, it isn't because the saying "life isn't fair" is untrue; what I take issue with is the standard and "appropriate" reaction to that fact. To accept it is to condone human suffering; if these super-moral human beings with their "empathy" actually were holier than thou, they would find objections with such a reality and seek to change it; it's a lack of will on the part of those with the power and ability to make things "more fair" for others to actually take proper steps in that direction - minus their tax-deductible contributions to some charity that will give them a wonderful bragging piece to pull out at their next cocktail party. Disgusting.
The most dangerous and destructive type of evil isn't the type your mother warned you about. The real threat is much more subtle. Just like how a lie by omission gives you plausible deniability as compared to an outright fabrication, neglect for the plight of others allows those for whom life is more fair to live in a bubble of willful and acceptable ignorance - they have averted their eyes, excused their inaction, and justified their method of social harm via negligence well enough that they can still go to church on Sunday and feel like practical saints. My preferred alternative to "life isn't fair" is "apathy is death", and for some that saying will apply literally as the callousness of their fellow man allows them to quietly die in the dark. But really, who cares, right? Life isn't fair, after all.
"Life isn't fair". I hate that saying so incredibly much. It can't be defeated because it's technically true. It's true because it makes itself true via its use and application by those who say it. In that way, mankind has used this saying, or at the very least the concept it represents, to justify the allowance of the suffering of others with no moral strings attached. By simply making the observation of the self-fulfilling statement that "life isn't fair", some morally angelic people have effectively circumvented their sense of empathy/remorse/guilt and released themselves of all their responsibility as "decent" human beings to care about the suffering of others. How very convenient.
This is yet another example of how the presence of a sense of empathy/remorse/guilt has necessitated a destructive rationalization to get around the emotional and psychological pain that would result from applying empathy/remorse/guilt rigidly, absolutely, and without qualification, as though they were somehow a set of rules meant to govern your actions. Hmm.
Again, it isn't because the saying "life isn't fair" is untrue; what I take issue with is the standard and "appropriate" reaction to that fact. To accept it is to condone human suffering; if these super-moral human beings with their "empathy" actually were holier than thou, they would find objections with such a reality and seek to change it; it's a lack of will on the part of those with the power and ability to make things "more fair" for others to actually take proper steps in that direction - minus their tax-deductible contributions to some charity that will give them a wonderful bragging piece to pull out at their next cocktail party. Disgusting.
The most dangerous and destructive type of evil isn't the type your mother warned you about. The real threat is much more subtle. Just like how a lie by omission gives you plausible deniability as compared to an outright fabrication, neglect for the plight of others allows those for whom life is more fair to live in a bubble of willful and acceptable ignorance - they have averted their eyes, excused their inaction, and justified their method of social harm via negligence well enough that they can still go to church on Sunday and feel like practical saints. My preferred alternative to "life isn't fair" is "apathy is death", and for some that saying will apply literally as the callousness of their fellow man allows them to quietly die in the dark. But really, who cares, right? Life isn't fair, after all.
