Unfair?

Please excuse the literary mess that was my last post. Too many ideas, too late at night. Please also excuse my bad spelling in general. I'm aware that it makes me look like an uneducated pleb, but please put that aside when you read my posts, dear reader.

I work hard to make my hair look like I just woke up. I envy people whose hair is naturally like that.

Here's a philosophy that most people regard as quite sensible (I think, I haven't done any interviews...): Whatever goal you have, your modus operandi must include solutions to all the possibilities that might thwart the achievement of your goal.

Apply this to the purchase of a car. The cost of the $2000 hatchback on the side of the road isn't $2000, but $2000+the cost of fixing the X + the cost of any damages that you may incur in driving the vehcile, including future accidents. Most would agree that while you don't know what the future will hold, you have to factor the cost of potential damages into the car price. It's "rational" to do so.

Let us now take another application of the philosophy. A little more controversial. When you're calculating travel time, you should factor in as many possible hindrances. When you arive at work and you tell your boss that you were stuck behind a granny so that your tardiness wasn't your fault, your boss might say "You know that Sunday brings out the slow drivers. You should have thought of that and left earlier."

Here's another application of the philosophy and it's much more controversial: Remember that marathon runner in the Athens Olympics who got shoved by a psycho ex-priest and so finnished third, not first? We all said "The poor chap" and rightly so. But perhaps we shouldn't say that it was unfair that he finished third (I'm aware I'm saying something unpopular here) because when he was training he should have taken into account the possibility that some psycho ex-priest might jump out of the crowds and push him off the track, thus sinking his chances of coming first in the race. You could say "It was fair that he came third because of his negligence in keeping an eye out for psycho ex-priests." Harsh, I know. Incidently, the first-place jeapordizer was a repeat offender.

How about this incident: you're careering off a cliff with a car load of non-Christians. Will you choose this moment to plead and beg that they repent? Of course you would. But there is always the possibility such events occur and indeed they do. So why aren't we pleading and begging with our friends now?