@ChrisMayLA6 Ahh... so that brings us to the question of... "what is fairness"?
Good information and education are both problems in our times. It seems that the trend for both, is downwards in most of the world countries. I assume exceptions exist, but the question is... do the modern politicians even want a well educated population?
The fact that so few copy the leaders in PISA seems to me to support the theory that they do not in fact want an educated population.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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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?
@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.
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