Date:
March 27th, 2008
From:
A Curious Party
Question:
Why is it that bad things happen to good people and the one's [sic] who shouldn't even be part of our society have all the luck?
Goofball Answer:
Curious Party,
Where you stand at this exact moment is where you have been deposited by the decisions you've made in your life. The bad people to whom you refer stand similarly in the exact places they've been deposited by their decisions. At human scale (i.e. beyond the level of quantum events) nothing happens without cause. In short, there is no such thing as luck, and therefore by necessity, no such thing as bad luck. There are only choices and consequences. We each make them, and they deposit us where they naturally will.
If you wish to be somewhere else, you can sit idly musing over it or begin making decisions to effect a change in your life.
Ask yourself what opportunities you've sought, and which you've let pass by. Ask yourself what kinds of company you keep. Have you engaged the world through education, travel, literature, arts, and relationships outside your own social group? In short, what kinds of decisions have you made?
Create for yourself the good things you mention, and they shall be yours. There will be bruises along the way, to be sure, for we are all of us imperfect decision makers with imperfect information. But don't blame luck, for it exists only as the scapegoat of the lazy.
As to the bad people who seem to have it all. They exist, I will admit. They take what they want, when they want, with little or no consideration for society about them. And they roam freely in our society for one reason—the mindless blame-transfering, society-should-coddle-all-in-its-bosom philosophies of the bleeding heart liberals.
~ topher