The Fairness Fixation

These days, we are all playthings of a benevolent state which thinks it knows best

Niall Stewart
Published in
5 min readFeb 22, 2023

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One of the signs of an intellectually lazy society such as ours is default assumptions about what constitutes “fairness”.

Yet “fairness” — at least in the abstract — is fast becoming the core ideal of Western political and philosophical thought. “We want to make

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