There is no such thing as justice. People get what they get--it doesn't matter what they "deserve." Does any child deserve to get cancer? No. Does that stop some children from getting it? No. Nobody, and I mean nobody, however terrible they may be, deserves to suffer. Nobody, and once again I mean nobody, deserves greatness. Sometimes life provides one or the other, sometimes it doesn't. In either case you don't deserve it. You get what you get and that's it.
I have heard it argued that the lack of justice in this life proves that there must be an after life where justice does exist. Does this mean that the lack of unicorns and pixies in this life proves that there must be an afterlife in which unicorns and pixies exist? Could a person making such a claim as this possibly be taken seriously? The only thing that a lack of justice in this world proves is that there is a lack of justice in this world.
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Of course people "deserve" things. And we all deserve to suffer and feel joy. We wake up every day and rather than sticking our heads in the oven and letting go of all the absurd rules we have made for the sake of life and death, rules stemming from belief in a "higher power", or our selves, we get dressed, make breakfast, and drive to work. Due to death being a choice, (the taboos against seeking it are as meaningless as any other taboo) life, too, is a choice. And the only choice I attribute with value.
I hate it when people go off the absurd assumption that what you deserve and what you get are, and/or should, be based on your intentions.("however terrible they may be") Reality has no care for intentions, and yes, if intention is the measure by which it is decided whether or not something is deserved, then nobody deserves anything if only because intention is in no way based on reality and is nothing more than another man made concept to make us feel better; it is based on the error of thought that says we always tell ourselves the truth.
We get what we deserve because actions have results. Not seeing it coming; not wanting it to, not meaning it to, does not provide a case for being undeserving. As far as a child with cancer. There is a physiological problem, the body reacts and life is lived as long as it can be. Do you think if you asked that child if he would rather give up his short life to not have to suffer through cancer, and the treatments that are worse than the disease, that he would say "Hell yeah! When can I getgassed ? A short life with physical pain isn't as great as a long healthy life, so why bother!" Not bloody likely. (Simply because a thing lasts, or endures, does not make it right; nor bestow upon it a greater value.) So yes he deserves it, in that he has chosen to continue through it. (The only people who do not deserve to suffer, or feel joy, are those that can't, because of such severe physiological problems that leave them with out choice in the matter.)
Choices have consequences, life and death have consequences, and not knowing, wanting, or accepting them does not mean that we don't deserve it. The concepts of suffering and joy are the values we attribute to these consequences, these values are not inherent. You choose to have consequences in life by choosing to continue living, but you also choose what value those consequences have. Some appreciate their suffering because it makes them stronger, better people. (The idea that suffering strengthens is crap. The strong are better able to cope with suffering. And strength varies from year to year for all of us.) Some wallow in suffering because, lets face it, sometimes it feels good to feel so damn bad. And some people don't even know that they "suffer", they dislike that particular value so much they have seemingly erased it from their vocabulary, though they have the same consequences as any one else that doesn't put their head in the oven, they are the sincerely happy.
And last, as far as man and his greatness, and whether or not he deserves such a thing, leave it to idealists to believe that any man can be given, or even achieve greatness. (I won't even start on justice)
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