Thoughts on Justice/Fairness/Lawfulness

[earthling177]

While I was reading someone's post about an insight they had and their associated personal breakthrough, I got to think about fairness and justice, particularly as practiced in the Americas

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[muffyjo]

Communist! ;)

Exactly!

[firstfrost]

For desireearmfeldt and fredrickegerman's wedding, their attendants each gave them advice and little symbol-gift things. We gave them saltpeter and pins (from the exchange between John and Abigail Adams in 1776), and advice something like "the golden rule is a good beginning, but the thing to strive for is to do unto others not what *you* would have done, but what *they* would have done."

(Of course, it does cost me more to call Hawaii than to call local, because my house telephone has this thing called a "long distance plan" that you young whippersnappers who only have cell phones no longer have heard of. ;-) )

[intuition_ist]

remember that 'fairness/justice' usually comes into play when two or more people (or groups of people) decide that something *isn't* fair or just. either they want more than they're entitled to, or they actively dislike the other person/group and decide that they're going to to out of their way to thwart "them". there's an antagonistic relationship already, and the concept of fairness is a way to ameliorate that and have them reach an agreement even though they don't want to.

if you can talk to the other person, and work out a deal, in some sense 'fair/just' don't matter, because both of you are satisfied and there's no jockeying for position going on.

[spwebdesign]

I really enjoyed reading your post. Wish you would post more often!

When Keya and I used to live together, we had a very convenient arrangement. She loved to cook and do laundry, but hated, no loathed, taking out the trash. I didn't mind particularly doing any one particular chore. So I would occasionally cook, we would both help with the dishes, but she did almost all the laundering and I took out all the trash and recycling. We were both happy with this arrangement. As you point out, we probably both thought we were getting away with murder.

[hammercock]

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." -- Anatole France

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