notion of fairness

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If we leave perspectives and emotions out of the equation, we ignore that which may inform our very notions of fairness and justice.
This preoccupation does not exclusively rest upon notions of fairness to 'doing one's bit' by contributing according to productive ability.
We then explore the implications of this relationship between notions of fairness and social norms for how policy analysis should ideally be conducted.
Our first theme is that pursuit of notions of fairness results in a pernicious reduction in individuals' well-being.
Another difficulty is that many notions of fairness entail a peculiarly selective perspective and thus ignore seemingly pertinent aspects of a problem.
However, since they exclude from deliberation notions of fairness, guilt, disappointment, and regret, they are unacceptable as requirements of rationality.
Most important is the lack of affirmative rationale for notions of fairness.
The debates are full of references to abstract notions of fairness and justice, but the question we have to ask is ' fairness and justice to whom '?
Again, "retributive notions of fairness implicitly accord a far greater weight to the suffering of criminals than to the harm they cause to others" (p. 335).
Whether imbalances, in actual or symbolic terms, are defined as inequitable and unfair depends thus on social constructions, based on prevailing notions of fairness and deservingness.
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