"Why Me?"? Why Not?

From: stripey7@yahoo.com
To: talkback@whyy.org
Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2012
Subject: "Why Me?"

I resent Dan Gottlieb's assertion that the question "Why me?" is universal and inevitable. I never ask myself this, because I wasn't brought up to believe the Universe operates on a principle of justice. Perhaps Gottlieb was, and that's why this reaction seems "natural" and "inevitable" to him. But he shouldn't project this irrational expectation of his onto those of us who were taught a non-anthropocentric concept of cosmic order.