Life is fair

None of this is supposed to be offensive, it’s only the art of debating =D. Since you are taking a materialist’s standpoint and arguing from a materialist’s worldview, of course there is such thing as unfairness. But what makes that worldview more logical and greater than my belief in Christ? You offered me some foundationalism rules that have no true logic according to your method of thinking; after all, all my arguments about children dying have to be logical while yours don’t? I don’t want this to turn into a debate on worldviews, but we have to find some common ground here. The main idea that I argue from is that Expectations differ from person to person because of the differing environments that people live in. You are right in that I cannot explain undeserved death through a materialist’s viewpoint, but I will go on explaining this later, but right now, I will say that from a Christian’s worldview, these Children that die WILL be treated fairly, justly, and humanely in God’s Kingdom. God gives us what we deserve in his point of view…not ours. Dishwashers vs. video game testersActually what I meant to say was, my father’s friend is a former dishwasher. Anyways, he moved his way up into the field of engineering by going to college and is now a CEO because worked his way up to this level. His joy regressed back to the state of which he was in previously as a dishwasher finding that life is just as hard from any point of view. He had a divorce with his wife because she was complaining about how much time he had to sacrifice for his company. Do you have true evidence that dishwashers are any happier? They have nothing to worry about outside of work and even during work. Can you name people who sit behind computers and have sinecure jobs? I can’t; not even Paris Hilton can be used as an example. Paris Hilton has the world scrutinizing her every move. I’ve been at the hospital for anorexia and had nurse scrutinizing my every move. It’s not worth her material life. Life doesn’t have to be unfair in one area to be seen as unfair as a whole. Although fairness is still subjective, so is unfairness, however, fairness seems to be more probably if you look at the big picture. Steve Jobs does not sit in front of the computer and earn “free” money. He worked hard to get where he was. I am not trying to downplay the merit of achievement, but you have to realize that more material does not equal a more fair life. Take me for example, I am short, I have a learning disability, I suffered from OCD, avoidant personality disorder, social anxiety disorder, anorexia, a couple years before and currently have ADHD. On the outside I appear to be happy because, I am an A student, winner of multiple national drawing competitions, daughter of a father who has a seven figure salary, I have perfect harmonious family, and I have wonderful and loyal friends. Every time I visit my relatives in China, they always tell me how lucky I am. If only they knew what I went through in life will they know that their life is just as good as mine is. Yes, getting a promotion does make one happy, but we don’t weigh the amount of things that we have that makes us happy. If we get upset over one thing, it is going to ruin our day if we have higher expectations for own life. The man who was denied the promotion will get over the unhappiness later and something else will come and occupy him with happiness. Convicted peopleI am quite certain that convicted people will have or already have had issues in their marriage, friendships, or in life in general. This alone is a punishment. One can’t assume that they are going to leave the past in the dust. Innocent people being sent to prison is not okay if you think of it in straightforward manner, but if you believe that the world is balanced, then what ever happens is whatever is planned for him or her. We should give every effort to prevent these things, but if it is unpreventable, we have to let life take its course. Your morality is that whatever the scenario, genocide, death, etc. are wrong. Were do you base your assumption off of? How do you know what is best for person when you don’t know how these people feel and perceive life when they have nothing to juxtapose it to other than the “better” lives of others? How can facts affirm something as true when they could be biased, incomplete, and too general? Have you experienced life from three different points of views? Even if you did, you would base your idea of fairness based off of the other lives two lives; it still wouldn’t be accurate. I can’t prove that fairness exists without using God’s name and you can’t prove world is unfair without foundationalism either. If you think human set principles should be the base of the answers to all philosophical questions as this, philosophy would not be complete! “If human nature is to always want more, then that means we can never be truly satisfied with our lives. Thats unfair. This turns her argument about a Happiness Level because it just creates a system where no one is actually happy with what they have. ”How is this unfair if we are all on the same boat? And yes, none of us are actually content with what we have. It’s not humanly possible. Even my father who has already accomplished enough still feels the need to write more software programs to that he could feel more achievement. “She also doesn't refute my argument about the world being "balanced" with good and evil. Why does it have to be balanced? Why can't there just be no evil in the first place? This easily negates the resolution because the mere existence of evil implicitly proves that life is unfair. ”If there is a balance of good and evil, then this still does not refute the idea of fairness. If evil were evenly distributed among people, then fairness would still exist. If you refute me saying I am assuming my position from the idea that everything is fair, you also base your assumptions off of many baseless ideas; we would be arguing in circles. Because our worldviews are so different, it would be difficult for us to reach a consensus. I completely understand everything you mean and I wish we had more rounds.