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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (93424)	11/3/2008 4:57:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541429

Old business. I happened upon this piece on PfP. Cracked me up and I couldn't help thinking of our discussion on the topic. "If you believe that "fairness" — a childishly subjective idea that ought to be quarantined to playgrounds and Berkeley city council meetings — should be meted out by the autocrats inhabiting Washington, D.C., your faith will be duly rewarded." denverpost.com Believe it or not, I do usually read actively and I do give thought to substantive arguments. I have thought quit a bit over the last few days about your notion of fairness being key to family relationships. I'm 65 years old. I have had experience with family and family-like relationships. Despite best efforts over several days, I could not think of any occasion where fairness was ever raised as an issue in any of them. So it's clear to me that a fairness frame of reference is a choice, not inherent to interpersonal relationships. What makes some use it and others not, I don't know. Maybe it's temperament or the culture from which one comes. I'm curious about it because it's alien to me. Since you're disinclined to educate me about it, I guess I'll just have to remain curious but uninformed. I remain unable to identify how switching to that frame of reference would be helpful or even neutral. FWIW.

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