I Believe Paper

I Believe this World is unfair…

Why are there drug dealers, and prostitutes evading the law? Is it because they enjoy doing what they do? Getting abused and always on the lookout for the cops? No, it is because they have no other choice to survive. This world is not a fair place, there is no happy ending for some of us, there are people starving in third world countries while we complain about how much homework we have. I have learned this through reading Sin City and interviewing many ex-prostitutes and drug dealers in jail and this is what I believe.

Of the prostitutes I interviewed, most of them began with their parents being divorced or separated or being alcoholics. This probably led to abuse, which would probably lead them to either foster parents or influencing them to become like their parents or in the case of separation, the parents would have less control over their kids. Without a loving family to care for them, they start down the path of darkness and without parents to guide them, they go in further and further. If their parents were drug dealers, they would’ve easily gotten a hold of the drug and may have started using at a very young age. Later, they would sell everything they had to get the drug because they were addicted, some would even steal things just to get money for drugs.

For them to survive, they needed money, that is when some of the to-be prostitutes become what they are, the drug dealers tells them that they could earn money by selling their bodies. They would sell their bodies working under the drug dealer and they would get some drugs and some money to buy food and other necessities. After they started this path, they cannot stop, it becomes steeper and steeper. Becoming a prostitute for some was forced upon them, the world was not very fair to them.

Casino cheaters and drug dealers, some became these by greed and they deserve the treatment they got but others, the ones that have been scammed out of their life savings, the ones that are threatened by “bad guys” to bring up money to pay for blackmail, or threatening to kill them. Is that fair for them? No. They might have been random picks off the street, innocent parents with kids and they just happened to leave their kid unattended for just a moment and that is when they made their move. Not all the people in the world has enough money to pay for a blackmail so they need to find alternatives to getting money.

However, it is also unfair to the people that casino players cheat off of. They are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars by just one person or one group of people planning it and I don't think it is quite fair for them either. The police that have to catch the drug dealers, they may get hurt or even killed sometimes, is it fair for them? What about their families? One day your son is fine and he goes to work, at 3 in the morning, you receive a call that you never want to get.

If you are born in a good standard family and you have a happy childhood, that's pretty much starting at the halfway point in the race. If you do something wrong or step off the race, you get disqualified already. You have to run more, you have to try harder, work harder and they will probably still win. Life isn’t without flaws and this is why I believed that this world is not fair to each and everyone of us.