Ha ha, just the easy questions please!
Fairness is almost impossible to pin down outside a personal moral reflection, I think, although (if I was to come over a bit Wittgenstein) there is likely a family of meanings which all show quite a lot of parallel and interconnected meaning.... so we might be able to say in general terms the sorts of things - such as reward for effort, rather than reward for luck (in life) and so on?
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 Oh but that's the reason I asked the question. ;)
In so many political discussions an argument is that "it is not fair!" or "this is fair", but never do you hear the next part of the sentence... "according to me".
Seldom do journalists, politicians and hobby debaters dive into the question of what is fair, what does it consist of, does the type of fairness advocated, in fact hit the lowest classes, or only the highest? Short term or long term? Etc.
@ChrisMayLA6 Sometimes, this can be branched out into equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity, or envy, or negative long term effects etc.
It is an enormously interesting question, since fairness is used so often as an argument.
But when we say fair, what do we really mean?
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