Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega...
by Timon3 on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:52AM
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> It's quite revealing when you say that "fairness" (scare quotes) is not important.
They put it in scare quotes because there is a big difference between "fairness" and fairness. You're not asking for actual fairness.
If there were two children, each who had a cookie, and one child steals the other child's cookie - nobody would say that a fair way to distribute the next cookie is to split it evenly between both children. But that's the kind of "fairness" you're asking for. It's fair in the most basic and childish sense. Once you stop ignoring what came before it's no longer fair.
They put it in scare quotes because there is a big difference between "fairness" and fairness. You're not asking for actual fairness.
If there were two children, each who had a cookie, and one child steals the other child's cookie - nobody would say that a fair way to distribute the next cookie is to split it evenly between both children. But that's the kind of "fairness" you're asking for. It's fair in the most basic and childish sense. Once you stop ignoring what came before it's no longer fair.