A phrase I often hear is, "It's not fair." It's common among children when a sibling gets something, or is allowed to do something, that they themselves are denied. But it can also be heard here at work from employees. It could be they didn't feel they got fair treatment about a job assignment, award or promotion. Whenever you have a group of people, it's a challenge to convince them all that they're being treated fairly. When life is not fair, sometime it's to your advantage. Michael Dorris" "The Myth of Justice," he concludes bitterly that justice is a matter of chance, as it does not quite exist. "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," Harold Kushner faces the essentially unbearable task of watching his son die, and from that experience, he analyzes Job. In the Book of Job, Michael Dorris and Harold S. Kushner offer different views of fairness and justice.
"The Myth of Justice," Michael Dorris declares that mankind's concept of justice is unmerited. "Do I need examples from real life to prove my point?" asks Dorris, "Read the newspaper. Look at world history. Examine your own family. People got what they deserved right?" (Dorris 466). Justice, in Dorris's mind, is simply an attempt by humans to organize a naturally unorganized world. All men and women have struggles, and they create justice in their minds and then hope it will be served. So justice is unrelated to God; it simply comes from within man. Dorris never says that justice is completely absent from the world, but says that justice is inconsistent in rewarding the good and .
punishing the bad. Many like Dorris may see justice as a myth, and it usually seems that the world is naturally an unordered place, as Dorris says. Lives are taken randomly, and pain is inflicted on the innocent. In Dorris" mind, man's suffering disproves the existence of a just God. Perhaps there is a different way of looking at suffering. Perhaps it is biggest hidden blessing that man can experience.
