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As a child, I was taught early and often that life was unfair. As I got older, I began to notice that life *was* unfair -- and usually unfairly skewed to the benefit of a specific group. And that the
Be weird! It's good for you. I'm just drifting around in a technobubble above the Puget Sound, tossing random little parachute-clad missives down to earth. As you do. Occasionally dispensing random life lessons for anyone who wants them. I used to be cosmicfunpalace on that other place. The smell got too musky, so I departed. Ironically enough, to a place where everyone toots. [Avatar image: a doodled cat with a silly Cheshire grin]
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Be weird! It's good for you. I'm just drifting around in a technobubble above the Puget Sound, tossing random little parachute-clad missives down to earth. As you do. Occasionally dispensing random life lessons for anyone who wants them. I used to be cosmicfunpalace on that other place. The smell got too musky, so I departed. Ironically enough, to a place where everyone toots. [Avatar image: a doodled cat with a silly Cheshire grin]
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Mar 06, 2026
This might be part of the reason why so many of us just accept the idea that life is unfair. We are taught early that there's nothing we can do about it.
But that's obviously not true or we would not have created the concept of law. Or early warning systems for natural disasters. Or vaccines and other forms of disease prevention. Or a system of firefighters who battle blazes, no matter whose house they start in. There are all kinds of things we do in human societies not to fix, because that's impossible, but to ameliorate the unfairness of life.
Be skeptical of those who want life to stay unfair. It's certainly not for your sake.
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