Do you think that life is fair?

...life has not the capacity to be fair or unfair only people can do that, and in that regard anyone who feels entitlement will always see it as unfair.

 

The T: I'm honestly not *trying* to tie this to religion at all, I think it naturally comes in to the picture. As OT says at the bottom of pg 2, talking about life being fair assumes sort of purpose or design to life, an equalising force that attends to things. This leads straight to religion.

 

This!

 

You can't leave me hanging in suspenders like that ... what? Why is life like a box of chocolates?

 

Life is like a box of chocolates...

 

... you never know which one is monkey poo?

 

...you never know whether they are injected with strychnine?

 

...you never know whether you can lick them to see what flavour they are without getting caught?

 

...you never know if the only reason your aunt bought you chocolates fro christmas was because that's what you bought her last year, and yes, it probably is the same box?

 

...you never know whether the person who bought them for you put any thought into it or simply chose the most innocuous mid-priced box they could find in the gas-station shop so they didn't appear over-keen or too cheap?

 

...you never know that the box of chocolates your girlfriend has just given you was really given to her by your brother who has been banging her while you were down the gym playing squash with your best friend that you've known since high school?

 

...you never know why your best friend that you've known since high school suddenly bought you some chocolates in a heart-shaped box, but perhaps now is the ideal time to stop going down the gym for a game of squash, or at least not sharing a communal shower with him afterwards?

 

...you never know that your wife bought you a box because she scratched your mint condition In The Court Of The Crimson King vinyl that you foolishly left on the turntable instead of putting it back in the protective dust-free lint-free acid-free paper sleeve like you normally do and hasn't summoned the courage to tell you so she put it in the protective dust-free lint-free acid-free paper sleeve in the hope you'll not notice?

 

...you never know whether the cacao farmers get quite such a fair trade from the fair trade agreements as the International Fair-trade Certification Mark would have you believe or whether the bulk of the premium paid by the chocolate manufacturers is absorbed into the system as management and administration costs so that a very small percentage of that money ever reaches the farmers, where estimates range from as little as 1.6% to 18% (yeah, I know) of the premium being paid to the farmers involved in the scheme?