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And if the people who end up on the wrong end of those decisions push back, what are you going to do? Shrug, cite the "impossibility of fairness", and tell them
by Veen 4y ago
And if the people who end up on the wrong end of those decisions push back, what are you going to do? Shrug, cite the "impossibility of fairness", and tell them to suck it up? That's a short road to a very unpleasant backlash. Fairness is deeply important to most human beings.
- dllthomas 4y agoHow does that make the impossible possible? If fairness is impossible we have to somehow deal with some amount of unfairness. That does not depend on having a good proposal for dealing with unfairness.
- Veen 4y agoThe people who have been fucked over will eventually take what they think should be theirs by whatever means they think appropriate. That's how you end up with Trump and even worse.
- dllthomas 4y agoSure. Grant that that's terrible. Or substitute even worse outcomes. That doesn't mean we can require fairness if fairness is impossible. I think people are assuming I'm making a broader case than I've meant to...
- Nasrudith 4y agoBuy a gun or vehicle? Because if you are at the mercy of insane, irrational, and potentially violent actors there is nothing other than force which can guarantee safety. They will call it unfair that their victim fought back and that three or more on one went to the one. Because fairness is a solipsistic, narcissistic standard that cannot be objectively defined. It is more a rhetorical device than anything logic related as you can argue any standard as fair or unfair.
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