Jayson_Virissimo comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong
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IDK, but I have heard people refer to fairness in similar situations, so I am merely adopting their usage.
I agree. To a large degree the near universal preference for "fairness" in humans is illusory, because people mean mutually contradictory things by it.
I believe "fairness" can be given a fairly rigorous definition (I have in mind people like Rawls), but the second you get explicit about it, people stop agreeing that it is such a good thing (and therefore, it loses its moral force as a human universal).