What is fair?

Remember when you're a kid and your parents tell you no, so you say "That's not fair!" Well my parents always responded with "life isn't fair." That is something I honestly believe because what defines fair? Is it fair for a little child to grow up without a father because he died in a war? Yes, the father may have chosen to go to war. However that child did not choose to lose their father. Choices people make create different situations that happen to them, but it doesn't mean that those situations are fair. When I was in 4th grade I had this friend who lived down the street from me who was actually more like a brother than anything else. When I fell down and was crying, he picked me up and brought me home. He ended up killing himself, and that situation wasn't fair for anyone. Some people may say that life is fair, but the only way I would be able to see it that way is if horrible things didn't happen to anyone. If the world was perfect and peace and love took over, then, and only then would life be fair.
Even people who have a great life can see that life isn't fair to those little children all around the world who are starving because there isn't enough food to eat. Or the people in Darfur, Sudan who are trying to survive through one of the worst things a human can experience: genocide. They didn't choose to be born into those situations, yet it happened and it's definately not fair that they have to deal with those difficult things.
Families that have money tend to spoil their children, giving them everything they beg, whine, and cry for. If they want a car, they get 2. Life isn't fair in that respect because there are kids out there who don't even have a bed to sleep in, or a blanket to keep them warm, while there are rich, spoiled kids who have a huge beds, and a closet full of warm clothes.

In the words of my parents, "Life isn't fair."