There are plenty of people, especially those that aren’t doing well, that don’t believe that life is fair and to a large extent from their perspective that seems to be a reasonable position to take, for some of us are born into quite favorable circumstances, of a good and healthy family life, along with excellent educational facilities; whereas, there are plenty of people that are born into poverty, along with dysfunctional families, and suffer the ill effects of living in a place in which they see their condition as living within a domain in which an undesired occupied force is oppressing them.
There is no doubt that the circumstances that we are born into make a material difference as to how our life and even our perspective of such will turn out. So too, jurisprudence as practiced seems to indicate that rather than the law being impartial and thereby no respecter of persons, we find that in actuality, the law is quite partial, and in particular partial to those in power as well as those that have the accouterments of success. This hardly seems fair, and indeed, it isn’t fair, but yet these are the conditions that we must contend with.
Yet, it has to be acknowledged that when we are challenged and put to the test, that this is not for the purpose to defeat us, or to lower our self-esteem, or to make us to live in frustration, but rather this is structured as a test to develop our character through the challenges that we face, and those that face those challenges and thereby overcome their obstacles are the very same, that are making progress; whereas, those that aren’t able to rise up to do something constructive and positive about their situation are the same that haven’t learn to progress where progress is warranted.
So too, it is important to recognize that this world and the justice or lack thereof, is not going to typically be all that fair, because human beings as well as the societies that are made up of those people, are subject to not only the prejudices of that day and age, but also are subject to character faults, and decision making which lacks wisdom, impartiality, and justice. This signifies that those that look for fairness in this world are often going to be disappointed, and while to strive to see that fairness becomes part and parcel of society has its place, it is, though, more important to deal with what has to be dealt with in the best manner that we know how, consistent with being in harmony with ethics which are attune to that which gifted us with free will to begin with.
Finally, it has to be admitted that in the end, all is fair, for fairness and justice are eternal characteristics of that which first created us, so that those who feel that they can “cheat” their way to Heaven will be disappointed, because that will not ever happen. Rather, there is that fairness, that never wavers, and it is up to each one of us, to be true to that fairness by treating the other as if they were the same as our own, in the sure recognition, that what we so fairly sow, we will for a certainty, fairly reap.