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>fair: impartial and just, without favouritism or discrimination. We should be fair to everyone. But there's no contradiction - you can be fair to someone, and

• Jochim 3y ago
  You're not incorrect in your sentiment or definition but fairness is often misused in order to downplay an individual's responsibility or to justify their actions. An illustrative example where the use of the phrase "to be fair" would be justified: Person A: "Brian has been very rude to me lately!" Person B: "To be fair, he's been in a lot of pain since the surgery." However, in this case originally, GP's request for fairness read to me as a pre-emptive dismissal of concerns regarding the ceo's performance, given that the examples did not address any criticism. When I say I have no interest in being fair to the ceo of Mozilla, it's not to say that I believe they should be treated unjustly. Rather, it's that I believe their behaviour to be inexcusable given the context. Admittedly, this does veer a little from the dictionary definition.