Looking back at real-life situations, some will argue that most discriminatory problems are fixed, such as racism and sexism. According to the World Justice Project, however, discrimination has risen from 2021 to 2022. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t until June 2023 that the United States Supreme Court decided to disable schools from considering race as a factor in applying to university, and this lasted for an entire 45 years! While not all colleges used this to discriminate and claimed that they did this to encourage diverse leaders, thankfully, the Supreme Court has decided that this could become problematic and banned it. However, there are still trials that are unfair to some people. For example, there is a case called Grants Pass v. Johnson, where the US Supreme Court decided that homeless people (and remember, they are supposed to be treated better as they are less able in the financial sense) could be punished for camping outside and parking overnight. So then, what are the poor homeless people who can’t afford a house supposed to do? This action is the complete opposite of fair, not even equal, as people with a house would never suffer from this regulation. This is an unfair decision. And for those of you who think that this happened ten years ago… No, this is something that happened last year, June 2024, to be exact. 

Now, politically, with Donald Trump in mind, the world is about to get more unfair. With his policies, he is trying to kick out foreign people from his country, and if they don’t leave, they are forced to pay high fines. And yet no trials, no consideration, no protest seems to occur. How could this president be called a “fair” president? Not to complain, but me and my friends’ generation are the ones that are going to pay for our ancestors’ price of causing global warming. We haven’t done anything, we are still young, we don’t even have voting rights, and yet you blame us for everything. How is this fair? 

For me, it seems like the answer is that nothing is fair. Life is just unfair. Who can say that they have made, with 100% certainty, a fair decision? After all, it is impossible that everyone will agree with the decisions being made. So, how do we create a world that is fair, and why do we claim that we can?

Sources: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fair

https://worldjusticeproject.org/news/discrimination-getting-worse-globally

https://law.stanford.edu/2023/12/12/students-for-fair-admissions-v-harvard-faq-navigating-the-evolving-implications-of-the-courts-ruling/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-that-cities-can-punish-people-for-being-homeless

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/trump-revokes-legal-status-for-530000-immigrants-in-the-us