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What you just described is group selection, and thus highly unlikely.
It's to your individual benefit to be more (unconsciously) selfish and calculating in these situations, whether the other people in your group have a fairness drive or not.
...and if your companions have circuitry for detecting and punishing selfish behaviour - what then? That's how the "fairness drive" is implemented - get mad and punish cheaters until it hurts. That way, cheaters learn that crime doesn't pay - and act fairly.
I agree. But you see how this individual selection pressure towards fairness is different from the group selection pressure that dclayh was actually asserting?
You and EY seem to be the people who are talking about group selection.