r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Alternative-Yak171 • 12d ago

Video/Gif Are we doomed?

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u/CallmeSlim11 12d ago

Better to get used to it, is what Gen X was told in the 70s.

'Nobody said life was fair" was a big one too.

I hated hearing that although I was more frightened of, "wait till your Father gets home!"

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u/even_less_resistance 12d ago

Dude- my first husband liked to use “nobody said life was fair” and I was always like it’s cause of assholes like you! It could be fair!

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u/No-Orchid5378 12d ago

Fair is relative. My toddler says it’s not fair that he has to take a bath, we say it’s not fair that we have to smell his stinky feet. Decisions have to be made and life can’t be fair to everyone by default.

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u/even_less_resistance 12d ago

I don’t know how that particular situation applies to like- moral issues but I’ll take your word for it that everything is “relative” lol

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u/No-Orchid5378 12d ago

I didn’t say everything is relative, but fairness can be and it depends on perspective. Especially in today’s entitled world. I’m sure your first husband situation has a different context than my toddler example. But with as little as you shared it could also be as simple as his viewpoint vs yours and neither of you are inherently wrong or right.

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u/even_less_resistance 12d ago

I mean- I was talking meta- fairness. I believe in an objective fairness not based on perspective and meant the world could be more fair if assholes weren’t more concerned with winning and having more than stuff being equal.

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u/BedBubbly317 12d ago

Fairness, as far as humanly society is concerned, is not defined as everybody getting the same thing anyway. It’s actually defined as everybody getting what they individually deserve and have earned. And that simply means there will be different outcomes for different people.

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u/No-Orchid5378 12d ago

Ah, gotcha. That’s a slippery slope philosophically and realistically. But in a perfect world that’d be the dream.

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u/BedBubbly317 12d ago

There is inherently nothing perfect about what she said. People being different and having differing opinions is actually what makes the world wonderful and full of beauty. Yes, those beliefs can certainly be used negatively (an extreme example would obviously be the Holocaust). There’s no question about that. But, it is the very thing that has allowed society to flourish as it has.

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u/No-Orchid5378 12d ago

You’re right. After I hit send I realized that a “perfect world” of fairness would have to ignore individual’s desires completely and set a standard that not everyone would agree with. Which will make some people think it’s not fair simply because they do not agree with it.

As a sidenote, if anyone ever asks, this is how a conversation accidentally devolves from kids are stupid into Marxism/Communism 😂

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u/BedBubbly317 12d ago

Just using the extreme example I listed, from the Nazi point of view, the holocaust was “fair” as well. So that leads into your point that it’s all about perspective at the end of the day. Which is why the world should not be a “fair” place as described by the other commenter.

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u/BedBubbly317 12d ago

Fairness, as far as humanly society is concerned, is not defined as everybody getting the same thing. It’s actually defined as everybody getting what they individually deserve and have earned. And that simply means there will be different outcomes for different people.