Sterling said:
No, life is not fair. The good guy doesn't always win the battle or get the girl. More often than not, the 'bad guy' wins. This seems to make people think that being an ******* gets you places. It's not that being mean gets you places, it's that being assertive gets you places.
You're definitely right with assertiveness, but I'm not so sure about the fairness of life. Sometimes shitty things happen to good people, because really our lives are fleeting impositions of order on a chaotic world.
However, I'd say that being a good person is not only it's own reward, but also carries far more tangible rewards than being shallow or "bad".
I'm not sure that bad guys "win" even some of the time. They have hollow victories every now and then ("lol i liek had secks with sum1 last nite lol") but I'd say 99% of the time it bites them big time later on. Whether that's because they die in a car crash, drug overdose, end up locked up, choke on their own vomit or simply because they alienate people and die lonely in the end...
Pretty much all the "bad boys" I know may have got the girl, but they generally got the shallow, dumb girl, then stupidly made her pregnant at 16 and had to cancel the rest of their normal life. Or they got hooked on drugs. Or got involved in crime or mixed up in something that ruined their reputation.
So "karma" exists to some degree. If you're a nice person, I think you stack the odds of happiness in your favour. If you're "bad", you cash that in for thrills and spills but slide towards going off the rails or losing your inhibitions.