What's fair anymore...

I feel the word fair is thrown around way to much these days. By definition it should be a midway, and agreed equal where everyone gets what they deserve.

But far to often it's used to mean "I didn't get what I wanted." or I hear someone say "That's not fair on me." well either it's fair on everyone... or it simple isn't fair at all. It seems fair has no got a completely self centred way about it.

On a tangent, it's often asked as proof against the existence of a God, "How is it fair that a God would kill or hurt so many thousands of innocent people?" and I've only ever heard one good answer to this, although I had to piece it together myself, it's far from the cliché of "it's all part of a plan we don't understand", and that is this: None of us deserve to go to heaven... there are no good or innocent people... Jesus died on the cross to forgive all our sins... past, present and future... and to think that anything we can do is even close to comparable to that is just selfish.

Now PLEASE don't think that for one second this is a religious plug... but it kinda gives a nice different perspective on what's fair in the world, weather or not you believe in it (which as you know I sure as hell don't).

Now I don't hugely know where I am going with this, but I want some amount of food for thought to be served up on the subject, or at the very least I've brought it to your attention for the 30seconds that you skim read this post in.

But I too am guilty of this... I often complain that "it isn't fair how nice guys finish last" ... but I'm sure that if things were "unfair" in my favour then I can't imagine I'd be complaining... like if "nice guys" always got the girl then it wouldn't be fair... the bad guys wouldn't get a chance, or be able to be reformed or held down-to-earth by the love of a good woman. Now I know it's easier for me to complain about the situation as despite what you think, I personally plot myself on the nice side of the divide.

I guess the solution is to always try and do what you think is right and hopefully some day things will sort themselves out and become fair in the end.