Life is not Fair

A phrase I often hear is, "It's not fair." It's common among children when a sibling gets something, or is allowed to do something, that they themselves are denied. But it can also be heard here at work from employees. It could be they didn't feel they got fair treatment about a job assignment, award or promotion. Whenever you have a group of people, it's a challenge to convince them all that they're being treated fairly. When life is not fair, sometime it’s to your advantage. Michael Dorris’ “The Myth of Justice,” he concludes bitterly that justice is a matter of chance, as it does not quite exist. “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” Harold Kushner faces the essentially unbearable task of watching his son die, and from that experience, he analyzes Job. In the Book of Job, Michael Dorris and Harold S. Kushner offer different views of fairness and justice.
“The Myth of Justice,” Michael Dorris declares that mankind’s concept of justice is unmerited. “Do I ...