nydwracu comments on [POLL] LessWrong group on YourMorals.org (2015) - Less Wrong
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The fairness foundation isn't universal. I know people who test low for it, but that may just be a testing artifact. "Whether or not some people were treated differently than others" -- people are different, so of course there will be circumstances where it's right to treat them differently. There are some cultures where it's probably legitimately absent.
Also, I don't think liberal language hides the purity intuition.
From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of non-Western cultures, I get the impression that the fairness norm is very much a Western Civilization thing.
My bad. I wanted to say universalist.