Life is fair

My opinions may sound ridiculous to many people and I will give reasons why I believe they aren't by refuting your opinions on why life isn't fair. I will like to start out by saying that the statistics you brought to my attention are quite horrifying, and in any way be defined as unfair to humankind. Now, it's difficult to argue from an atheist's point of view, but I will try my best to. I am positive that all the facts that you presented me are true; however just because something seems unfair doesn't mean that it isn't fair. I am well aware that millions of good people die that don't deserve to die, but why is it our non-omniscient although consented opinion true? I would like to make something clear. There is material happiness and there is inner happiness. Some people have one; some have the other…its still fair both ways. Billions of people have died in wars throughout mankind's history. Most of those are civilians, who weren't even fighting. 60 million people died in World War 2 (1). Billions of people have died of disease. Common sense would lead us to believe that many of these were genuinely good people who didn't deserve to die. In 2006, over 55,000 young people were afflicted with cancer (2). 3. Hundreds of thousands of people are raped every year. This sets them up for emotional trauma later in life. In 1937, the Japanese seized the Chinese city of Nanking. Over the next few days, in what would become known as the Rape of Nanking, 200,000-300,000 innocent civilians were killed and 20,000-80,000 women and children were rapes, some as young as 6 (3). Many believe that the U. S is the happiest nation on the earth because these things like what you described don't usually happen any more. According to . http://www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com..., the U. S is not happier most other countries. Why? Our priorities are too high. These people that are victims of rape, murder, etc. Don't have the "same" happiness we do. These people value the little things that we don't value. When we are the state of valuing something, our happiness level does go up. The reason why there are so many more wealthy people who are depressed is that they have too much material happiness and find no further meaning in life. A girl who died in the Holocaust may also live with depression, but then again, her depression is on a different scale and must be looked at from her own perspective. You are wrong in that common sense can offer an answer to the question is life fair. Because we are not omniscient and omnipresent, we are not able to understand life from a spiritual perspective; rather we look at something from face value and grant it as true. Your claims seem to base off the assumption that what we see is what is right, but this is faulty in many ways. I will go on explaining this further in my next arguments refuting your other statements. Many people work twice as hard and make half as much. Dishwashers make $22,000 a year busting their a$$es off cleaning dirty objects, while video game testers make $60,000 to sit down and play games all day (5, 6). This is just one example; we all know there's hundreds more. The happiness that dishwashers exhibit is just as high as that of any other jobs. I am certain that video game testers will generally grow to if not dislike become more apathetic toward what they showed interest in previously. You can't argue something from point of view that requires one to accept that our truths are merely based off of observations. My father's friend was once a dishwasher working for a Chinese resturant. He believed that is just a job that a. doesn't require education and is for people who are not qualified to take on higher jobs (which still does not mean that they are gifted with any less happiness). Education is what gets us to places. I understand that many people don't get the opportunity for education; however, then their happiness level starts from a different point. B. Its NOT harder than most jobs. Game testers will later on have weakened eyesight; surgeons will continue to live in the fear that they will unintentionally kill someone. Everybody has his or her own worries and own perspectives. Life is fair, it is fairly balanced. We always think that the grass is greener on the other side, but once we cross over to that side, we will discover that we will have other worries. 8. The lazy, new guy who's been working for 6 months gets the promotion over the hard-working, 2-year vet because he knows the boss. That doesn't mean he is happier, he may seem happier, but he just gets to place his worries somewhere else. . Innocent people get thrown in prison. Guilty people get off on technicalities. Guilty people have to run, hide, lie, in my opinion that this worse than living in prison. The conviction of innocent people can give them a whole new perspective to life, which again doesn't refute the "fairness" of this world. Just because an innocent person has to die for a punishment it does not mean that the world is not in favor of them in terms of fairness. This may sound cruel but I honestly don't mean this in an offensive way, but they may have lived the life they were supposed to live. You don't know their merit; maybe they deserved what they deserved from a spiritual perspective that we cannot fathom. I know you made a comment about God allowing millions of children to suffer. Let me tell you this, I know plenty about countries such as Uganda, and Nigeria. Nigeria is ranked number 2 in lifestyle happiness according to . http://www.nationmaster.com.... I know people who go to Uganda for their missions trip. The first thing they say about these Children is how happy they are. Some of my classmates even went to Haiti; they said that these children look at life from another positive perspective EVEN after the earthquake. And yes, the boy soldiers from Uganda are constantly dying, but they still are probably as happy if not happier than we are and I know people who experienced this first hand. Maybe we hold untrue thoughts towards countries like this. Why are third world countries even on the happiness list? Because materialism is what we value and since we have so much material, we THINK we have the best life. Its not that we should give no effort to assist these people, we definitely should possess qualities of Jesus, but we should be thankful for everything we have right now, because our state of happiness will NEVER change permanently. If my opponent wants I can look up an individual example of any of these. After all, saying "6 million people died in the holocaust" doesn't create the same emotional response as detailing a 6 year old boy being taken from his mother and tortured for 7 days. Any argument that you present to me triggers the same response from a logical point of view, not from a being's point of view. It's again difficult not arguing from a theists perspective… we are all assigned roles in the world. We are all born with the same happiness level; if you really think about it, that is all what it comes down to. We expect everything to fit our perspective to be correct. All of these facts do trigger an emotional response, but there is a difference between feeling a certain way and believing and taking our own illogical emotions as true. Our environment makes no difference to fairness in the world, happiness is equally accessible to people all over the world. It's not to say that we should just let life go as it does, we should do whatever life calls us to do. Everybody wants to be successful materially because this is what is visible and palpable, but for the final time, it doesn't mean materialism is more or less fair. All my cites are in the paragraph.