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To: spiral3 who wrote (93471)	11/3/2008 8:02:46 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541465

Of course there is, Occams Razor. How does Occam's Razor tell us that fairness is the framework through which we should look at family relationships? Calling fairness in family relationships an anomaly I wasn't doing that. I was referring to disinterest in fairness as the anomaly, which it is in your fairness-focused world view. If you think that life is about fairness or supposed to be about fairness, then the suggestion that a fairness framework is not inherent and not necessary but a choice is dissonant. Ever tried to get kids to be fair, it's very much in us, a genetic impulse, which is why it is such a common imperative. I haven't had that experience. I spent most of my career as a manager, though. Subordinates can be pretty much the same thing. <g> Of course, once they're old enough to be working, there's no way to differentiate nature from nurture (or neurosis). I always thought that kids were naturally selfish, naturally inclined to consider getting what they want to be fair, if they thought of it at all, and that sharing has to be taught. Perhaps that was my Catholic upbringing. <g> Seriously, my experience with subordinates is that following the rules, whatever they were, was interpreted as fair. In the absence of rules or as an exception to rules, a utilitarian explanation for a decision, freely offered, disabused notions of unfairness. I never had a complaint about fairness even though I became in one job the designated supervisor of problem children. If you can't find your way forward in fairness If you're naturally independent of fairness, there's no reason to introduce it, which was my original point to Ed. It unnecessarily complicates things and is emotional, therefore unmanageable. I was looking for some rational for fostering it as a desirable framework.