Fairness in Most of the Segments of Human Life - Essay Example

There are many cases, in which the umpire commits mistakes while giving leg before wicket (LBW) decisions against batsmen. Under such circumstances, people often label it as an unfair decision. On the other hand, if the umpire makes the correct decision, people will accept it as a fair decision. In politics, governments often take some decisions in favour and against the interests of the people. For example, crude oil prices are fluctuating in the global market and because of that many governments in the world forced to adjust the petroleum prices in their country.

For example, the Indian government recently increased the prices of petrol in the domestic market several times. Wall Street Journal dated 4 November 2011 has pointed out that “The opposition lashed out at the UPA govt for raising petrol prices with BJP attributing it to the Govt’s mismanagement and the Left parties asking all their state units to launch nationwide protests” (India This Evening: Opposition Attacks UPA on Petrol Price Rise). In short, the petroleum price hikes in India is not labelled as a fair decision by the opposition parties even though, ruling coalition government label it as a fair decision, considering the price hikes of crude oil in the global market.

In the criminal justice system also, the word fairness is used extensively while analyzing the punishments given to the criminals. While Saddam got capital punishment, many of the people labelled it as an unfair decision whereas many others accepted it as a fair decision. Same way when Gadhafi was killed, many of the supporters of Gadhafi labelled it as an unfair decision from the part of the revolutionists.