A poor person can be happy, a rich person can be miserable. I've known grumpy Guses who couldn't crack a smile to save their life, and I've known folks with cheerful outlooks that couldn't be made miserable under the worst circumstances.
Laughter is the best medicine. What role does depression play in illness, injury recovery and disease?
Are you not conflating issues? I said nothing of injustice. Justice is a matter of law, which by its very nature is an artificial, manmade abstraction.
If it is not organic, naturally occurring, then it is a manmade abstraction that does not exist in reality. It may exist in our created social existentialism as an unattainable ideal, but the concept is doomed to failure precisely because it does not exist in reality.
She saw her advantage was taken away, so she sought another opportunity for advantage. It is a military thought process, and coincides nicely with what I pointed out in my thread The Warrior Philosphe.
Nice, but nothing to do with natural fairness or equity.
In the sense that I used an absolute, you are correct. I don't like to use absolutes, however, I have yet to find any clear example in nature of "fairness" that isn't anthropomorphistic.
Are we talking religion, or are we talking propaganda?
Law, since the Code of Hammurabi (or whatever the preferred spelling is currently), has been predicated on the abstraction of fairness. If you build a house for me, it falls and kills my son, your son should be executed, legally and fairly. That is the Code of Hammurabi.
Show me anything that equates in nature.
Life isn't fair. Get over it. Make of life what you want it to be. Live your life for you. Be what you want to be (you will anyway, whether you are cognizant of it or not). If you are not happy in the situation you find yourself in, get out of it and start over. It isn't easy, but it can be done, all a person has to do is exercise their free will.
What I see promoted is surrender to circumstance. I'm disabled, so I can't do anything....I am my disability because the gummint and everyone else tells me so. Crabs in a bucket.
I *am*, me personally, disabled. I am *not* my disability. There are things I can no longer do. There are things I have to do differently. My brain still works, and I routinely outwork as many as 3 of my able bodied coworkers...even though I am disabled. My disability does not stop me, it only slows me down a bit and makes me think how to streamline my processes. I routinely think outside of the box, because all of the crabs are stuck in the box.
Conflation again. If playing a game, such as debate, then yes the "rules" should be for both (or all) parties involved.
But that is not the same as Law, and regardless, both are abstractions not found in reality.
Perhaps in your experience, and I can't deny that possibility.
However, I have to look at reality. Reality is I'm short, with middle aged pudge, fixin' to retire, and sick of being dealt with unfairly in an increasingly reverse discriminatory environment due to DEI. I have been defrauded at work, and have lost any of the initial zeal and idealism that I began with, proving to me unequivocally that Rand was correct. I have sustained multiple injuries over time, and now I'm simply waiting for that chronic but mortal illness of old age to make itself known.
What about any of this is "fair?"
Justice is an altogether different matter. However, I will never see justice for the injustice I've already experienced, because I am not the correct gender, age, skin color, religion, etc etc etc - and lawyers (you know, those folks who practice the abstract Law as a profession) have sneaky ways of perpetuating my injustice.
I no longer have room in my religion for such abstractions. And I live my religion - daily.
