About fairness and justice

An interesting video shows how monkeys react when they are not paid in equal ways. By watching this video, you will probably identify someone you know – maybe you?

It is kind of a natural instinct when fairness is not present, after all if I am doing the same job of another person, I should receive the same payment, right?

Let the animal cruelty aside, the video shows fairness in its most basic and primary manifestation, taking the person to be angry or the nowadays fashion of passive aggressiveness.

Justice comes after that though. It comes from a theoretical animal defense group who will try to sue this institution to keep monkeys in cage. It will come when you sue your company or you try for a divorce.

Justice comes from a more complex and elaborated sense of how our culture and civilization operates. That is what it looks like, because the reality is that justice comes when fairness is not present.

Fairness is a natural state and it helps people not only to avoid going to justice, but also to understand a big picture and work harder, if that is the case.

To be fair, check these points:

• Are you treating others in the way you would like to be treated if you were from their same social class, gender, age or any other way to classify a person?
• If your honest response is NO, how can you amend for that? What are the changes you need to perform to treat others as you would like to be treated?
• And if you are the person who feels you are not being treated in a fair way, did you check the reasons for that? No matter how preposterous those reasons may sound, until you don’t know them you cannot claim for a better treatment.
• If you don’t agree with those reasons, what are you doing there anyway? Can you do something about it? Otherwise, can you hear your inner call and find the right place for you?