Fairness is not about statistical equality.
Law and justice are not always the same.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
If you have to pay money to have the right thing done, it is only just and fair to do it.
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.
There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
I think God's a pretty fair guy.
To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
