One learns early in life that things are not fair, that we enter this world under different circumstances, with varying degrees of talent or handicap. Yet despite this we have this innate sense of justice that requires us to view all men as created equal. We raise our children to be kind, gentle and fair, contrary to their basic instincts of self-preservation which, unrestrained, would yield selfish brutes that take advantage of every competitive edge over each other. The irony is that we prepare them inadequately for a world where fairness does not exist, where it is the strong, the loud, the networked who get somewhere, while the kind and the gentle wait for justice … a very long time.
