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fair or foul
03/27/2006 = 07:43 AM

Entries may be sporadic ... work's picking up and I'm quite busy. However, I will give you a question that occurred to me this morning and we'll see if we can find a definitive answer to it.

We always hear that, "Nothing's fair," or "Whoever told you life was fair?" We've heard it so much we tend to say it ourselves.

But really, don't you think somebody must have said "Everything is meant to be fair and balanced" at least once, for the concept to have caught on at all?

We are all expected to act fairly and equitably, and we are also all expected to accept it when we are treated unfairly and inequitably, either by others or by life circumstances. How did we, as a species, get a notion that there is such a concept as fairness, and why do we feel so put-upon when we do everything fairly and still get hosed?

And, discuss.

drinking: rockstar energy beverage fizzy-lifting drink
listening to: nothing
what made me think of this: don't even ask