Fairness

Posted Dec 6, 2012 9:22 UTC (Thu) by yeti-dn (guest, #46560)
In reply to: Fairness by man_ls
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Surely it is self-deception if your idea of generosity includes that it can be enforced on you.

Fairness

Posted Dec 6, 2012 15:50 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

Not at all, certainly it's still generous if we, as a group, decide to be generous, even if some individual part of the group does not agree with the consensus opinion.

Fairness

Posted Dec 6, 2012 18:56 UTC (Thu) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

Generosity and theft are mutually exclusive.

Moreover, so long as there is dissent within the group you do not have a "consensus opinion". To achieve consensus, you can either persuade the rest of the group to voluntarily endorse your view, or exclude the dissenters from the group. If your aim is to be "generous", those excluded must not be harmed by the actions of the consensus group (see above).