EDITOR:

There have been approximately 500 homicides already this year in Chicago; Milwaukee is on pace to set a record also. Quite honestly, it doesn’t surprise me in the least. I stated in one of my articles a couple of years ago that as long as we continue to have an unjust, unfair society, exactly what we see transpiring will occur and continue going forward. (However, I am not certain that violence escalating in a society would be considered going forward.)

It is a fact of life that life is not fair when it comes to a young person getting a terminal illness or someone becomes the victim of a tragic accident. Those circumstances are beyond our control. But, when it comes to people being treated unfairly by other human beings, there is no justification for it.

For those who lay credence to people being treated unfairly with the old axiom, life is not fair, please keep this in mind:

A dishonest man cheated an honest man out of some money and would not pay him back. The dishonest man told the honest man that since there was no contract there was nothing the honest man could do, and justified his actions by saying “life is not fair.”

The honest man took out a gun and forced the dishonest man to pay him back. Before walking away, the honest man told the dishonest man: “Now do you see why it is important to treat people fairly; without the gun I would have never gotten my money back.”

Without arrogance I am the author of the parable.

Jerry Rahoi

Iron Mountain