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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (90887)	10/20/2008 5:28:09 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541673

The sum total of those decisions can be summed up as maximizing efficiency and fairness. You're reasserting again. <g> Seriously, you have described a complex scenario but offered no direct support for why any of that is about fairness. Perhaps you think it's to obvious to have to explain, although it's obviously not obvious to me or we wouldn't be engaging in this colloquy. Or perhaps there is no explanation. Why is it a question of utility instead of fairness? It's a question of utility because you assign tasks based on what it takes to accomplish the objective, which may be simply a clean ditch or something broader, we don't know. You have a lot of "let's says" in there. They demonstrate that you factor in deadlines, capacity for work, I would add developmental opportunities, and you assign the task accordingly. That's all utilitarian. If there were a short deadline, for example, and either the man or the boy were incapable of working fast enough, the bulk of the work would fall to the other. That's utterly pragmatic. Re fairness, you assume that both both benefit. So you have assumed away the only potential fairness element that I can find in the scenario. Sure, the child might say it doesn't seem fair but in your public policy fairness vacuum, that's not a consideration. On what basis might the child reasonably assert that? I'd like to ask the child just why he thinks that and see what he says.