It's quite common to hear people lamenting that the world isn't fair. It's very uncommon, though, to hear people complaining that the world isn't beautiful.
I think God created the world with the concept of beauty in mind, rather than the concept of fairness. If everybody was born with equal amounts of the same amount of everything, and the world was evenly distributed with the same natural resources et cetera, it would be monotonous, and of course, ugly.
As an alleged beauty lover, I have to say that I think God's vision is better than having human perceptions of fairness reign. I'd rather have a world of diversity and beauty in that than a fair but prosaic world.
A chronicle of nose growth
'...changing the form of one's mission's almost as difficult as changing the shape of one's nose:
they are, each, in the middle of one's face and one's character - one has to begin too far back.'
― Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.
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