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12 Post author: gwern 03 March 2015 03:08AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 March 2015 03:10:45PM 2 points [-]

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.

A: "That's not fair!"

B: "Life isn't fair."

Also, I don't think liberal language hides the purity intuition.

Comment author: seer 28 March 2015 02:28:47AM 6 points [-]

From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of non-Western cultures, I get the impression that the fairness norm is very much a Western Civilization thing.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 March 2015 03:48:40PM 0 points [-]

My bad. I wanted to say universalist.