perfidy

From Charlton:

Maybe fairness is like energy - it is conserved, it cannot be destroyed, but when fairness is deployed it is dissipated into slightly raising the background heat.

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Perhaps when fairness is moved around it is dissipated into useless low level rhetoric, which can do no work.

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A society addicted to moving fairness around is perhaps depleting the system of its ability to achieve anything by means of justice.  The fairness death of the universe...

Whole post here.