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To: one_less who wrote (82055)	6/19/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Ah, yes, Maslow. But he never expected ANY person to have all their needs met simultaneously, let alone everybody. Remember, your definition of fairness was: When everyone's needs are met simultaneously and absolutely there is fairness in the general sense. Is it even theoretically possible for every person to have all of their Maslow needs met simultaneously and absolutely> Let's take just one: control over one's life and environment. But we share an environment. Especially in croweded cities, my absolute control of my environment will necesssarily interfere with someone else's control of their environment. It's not even theoretically possible for everybody in this crowded world to control absolutely their environment (not to mention that at any given moment in time somewhere in the world Mother Nature is giving somebody fits with their environment, whether through fire, flood, hail, or whatever.) Let's take another: sex. There is an inbalance of men and women in the world. Unless you accept some threesomes, it's impossible for everyone to have their need for sex met simultaneously and absolutely. So by your definition, there an never be fairness in the world. And your definition is useless for the more limited situations in which the term fairness is normally used -- fairness in a criminal trial, fairness in interpersonal dealings, what some books call 'fair fighting,', fairness on the playground, fairness between employer and employee. So I'll ask again -- what is fairness? How do we know when life is being fair and when it isn't?