My personal ideas of fairness are based on moral reasoning and scientific understanding. To state that more precisely, the criteria for this fairness being usef

My personal ideas of fairness are based on moral reasoning and scientific understanding. To state that more precisely, the criteria for this fairness being useful is the degree to which it is consistent with moral reasoning and scientific understanding. In a democracy, I think of fairness as the general underlying ethical ideas implied by the set of laws. As such, this idea of fairness will seem inconsistent in some ways, because it is the result of various laws and court precedents established over time. Individuals in any society have varying ideas of fairness of course. How they express and act on them varies considerably with the form of government they live in.