life, the meaning of

[delphicduck]

Well, I have given in to extensive peer pressure and set up this journal thingy. Hehe, hey Laura, now you has to make me one of those moving avatars!

the first link:
http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/meaning1.htm

What's more fun than pondering the meaning of

Comments

[pensee5]

Hey Bro, what are your thoughts on this:

(See the 1st and 4th points on the website).

I'd disagree with their assertion that 'life isn't fair', and their thoughts concerning justice. There is a misconception that 'fairness' follows some law of personal inertia: what happens to me, must have an equal and opposite reaction (to those who have wronged me).

If this egotistical justice is our universal definition, then I suppose life isn't fair. But to me that sounds like more of a call for self pity (ex. No one is perfect) when things go awry.

I think that the fact that our acts aren't balanced on this tit-for-tat scale is what makes life fair. We aren't chained to a system: Life has it's joys and it's tragedies, in all neither one outweighs the other. Your life is how you decide to construct it, which I think is justice to the human race. We are condemned to freedom (I suppose I'm very existentialist in that sense, the idea that people create laws and society from the raw materials given them).

Justice in society may not be absolute, but it exists. In any society, despite cultural relativity, there is a set of laws to govern that particular society. Those who break established law suffer the reprecussions. If there were no justice, all society would be anarchy.

Perhaps I'm living under some idealistic cloud; that my idea of fairness deviates from the norm. But according to your link, that site approves following such illusions if they lead to utilitarian purposes...which I believe they do.