Is life fair?

 So this is a hard one, and one that you could go on, and on about.

I am going to address it from simply three angles.

Certainly many will argue that life is NOT fair, mainly because

good things happen to bad people and vice versa.  So that is

an argument that might suggest, that well, maybe not so fair.

However, from the standpoint of biology you might get a different

perspective.  In biology the Tree of Life, is a big deal, and

I would argue even a bigger deal for biologist, than the Big Bang,

for physics.  So the question would come down to are trees fair?

Using the metaphor of Tolkien, the trees played a big role in the

battle for middle earth, and therefore could definitely be described

as the good guys from that narrative.  Beyond that there could be

other arguments, that lots of people like trees, and get particular

enjoyment from them.

Along that same line in math you have graphs and you have

also tree graphs, but generally graphs are a good thing and

quite helpful, and of course if you include maps, well pretty

essential really.

If you go look at it from a Buddhist perspective, you might

get something like, it's just not a good question.  Life is life,

and without it, you would have an entirely different ball game.

But clearly life has many attributes, and to focus on fair or not

fair, would be to focus on something that might not be so 

important, in the big picture.  Clearly it does include , change, and

sometimes it is hard to get to the good parts without going 

through a lot of the bad parts.

So want can be concluded, then?  I just don't know.  Sometimes

fair, sometimes mysterious, sometimes confusing.  

What do you think?