"Don’t ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else--a stranger in the street, for example." -Lemony Snicket
Why? How does knowing about this 'fairness' thing help me? (This was the line I was expecting the quote to go after the first sentence.)
If you want a truly amoral reason to care, it is this: most other people do, and these are the people you will have to convince of any proposal you want to make about anything, ever. If you propose something unfair, and are called on it, you will lose status and your proposal is unlikely to be adopted.
I would be deeply surprised if you did not care at all about fairness. I tend to think that at least some regard for fairness is part of the common mental structures of humans (there's a sequence post about this but I can't find it)
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: