This chapter really struck me and made me think really hard about why some people think the way they think. When describing religion and its impact on morality it has everything to do with faith and believing. All religions are different from one another and they have been around since written history, and the one thing they all have in common is it dictates between what’s right and wrong. It’s basically the first conducts of law and we use our religious beliefs to decide what is fair when a sin is committed and how to atone for it. For most people when discussing between right and wrong it is clear as day and night, but when discussing about what’s fair, people get mixed-up and confused. Fairness means in conformity with rules or standards; legitimate (Dictionary). We usually decide what is fair by comparing everyone to each other. We like to make sure that everyone gets the same opportunities and treated the same way as others, but to what degree.
Fairness can be described in hundreds of different ways, but it only has one meaning to me. At first I thought fairness was all about getting even, but I quickly learned that that doesn’t solve anything. When I was growing I always said “it wasn’t fair” when one of my brothers had a cooler toy to play with, took the last popsicle, or cookie out of the cookie jar. However every time I said that, my parents told me the same thing every time. “Nothing is fair”. After a while of hearing that, I started to change my mind on what fair meant to me, because getting even just got me in more trouble and I know it can’t be nothing. I didn’t have the answer until I started to realize how fortunate and well-off I am compared to others.
I always compared myself with those closest to me or people with the same social and financial status as myself. I never compared myself to people far richer or far poorer to me. I find it funny, because I will even see a homeless person not care at all about everyone else except how well the...