Talk:Fairness
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Some content moved to Forty-nine charismatic virtues. Peter Manchester 13:33, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Is Justice always Fair?
[edit]It is difficult to accept that justice is always fair. Justice depends on the form it takes in a society that is generally acceptable to the majority of the population. Different societies will have different definitions of justice, and thereofore what is fair in one society may seem horribly unfair in another. The terms fairness, justice, morality and ethics are all quite similar in this regard, and as such should not be used as a principle to any universal argument.--H.A.L. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.39.13.235 (talk) 13:31, 22 April 2005 (UTC)
"Behavioral economics" entry
[edit]I removed
- * A form of preferences, as studied in behavioral economics
Having done so, i note that
- Failing to mention fairness probably doesn't rule out a lk to an article, if some users who read the entry say "Oh, good; i didn't think of going straight there, but that's the kind of fairness i had in mind."
- The function of the non-lk portions of a Dab entry is not to be understood by users whose needs won't be advanced by seeing the article.
Nevertheless:
- The article in fact uses the string "fair", in its 27kB, only once, only halfway thru, in the phrase fair price, raising a presumption that most users who come to the accompanying Dab for info on fairness in the behavioral economics sense would be more efficiently helped if they go straight to the fair-price/fair-value article without the delay and disappointment of getting there thru the behavioral-economics article.
- Describing "fairness" as "a form of preferences" (with or without bolding) seems idiosyncratic or obscurely technical at best.
- An entry that invites users to "take a chance" on it, bcz they've understood the other entries without finding one TYat.
--Jerzy•t 10:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
†fairness is were people respect and share thing with each other —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.87.9 (talk) 21:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Why is this a disambiguation page?
[edit]Surely the concept of fairness, used in multiple senses (in law, in politics, in society generally) deserves its own page? "A fair day's work for a fair day's wage". A "fair go". "It's not fair". "Justice as fairness". And so on. Where are the philosophers to write about this? Wikidea 13:02, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- As the page indicates, there are many different possible meanings of the word and no one has tried to assert one as primary in the 14 years since this comment; it seems unlikely anyone ever will. Accordingly I've removed the
{{dabconcept}}template and the page remains a disambiguation page. Hairy Dude (talk) 14:08, 19 September 2025 (UTC)