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Thursday, December 9, 2010

God-Given Bias

Life's not fair. Some humans don't do anything their whole lives because their father's were millionaires, now their children are too. Some humans where born in a shed, to parents they never knew, and eat a little every other day, then manage to eat steady for a week only to die of cholera the next day because they couldn't drink the water that taunted them at their feet. Why are some born better off then others? Why are some born millionaires and some born only to die a week later? Why are some given the unfair advantage of safety and support in the fight for heaven?

Upon reading Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins these thoughts only dug deeper in my mind. Why do I deserve to have the hardest choice, or test, of my day so much lighter and easier to make then Katniss's disturbing dilemmas? Of course Katniss is fictional but she represents those who have not been blessed nearly as much as others.

To those with life in the seam, when it comes down to it you have to choose whether to follow Friedrick Nietzsche and say "God is dead" or you choose to be the best person you can possibly be and hope that the choice God looks at the most is the choice of weather or not you chose to try at all. Or best of all just choose a way, and know that it is completely right for yourself.