If we sacrifice nature at the altar of material progress and global fairness, we risk, as Murugayian put it to me, losing a part of ourselves.
The relatively few experiments conducted in non-Western cultures suggest that the minds of American students are highly unusual in many respects, including their spatial cognition, responses to optical illusions, styles of reasoning, coöperative behavior, ideas of fairness, and risk-taking strategies.
This spreads the risks of ill health more evenly across society, simultaneously enhancing fairness and reducing risk (thus enabling entrepreneurship).
An individual's need for care depends on luck and genes, so that social fairness requires pooling risk.
AT a time when even some prominent supporters of the death penalty are raising concerns about the system's fairness and the risk of executing an innocent person, Robert H. Macy remains a true believer.
"While working later in life is to be encouraged, intergenerational fairness is at risk if older colleagues continue to dominate the best positions, negotiate better pay and conditions, get free travel to work with their freedom passes, while also claiming unaffordable and unsustainable pensions," said Seager.
The commission had balanced "fairness against the risks to employment" if the level was set too high, he added.
By contrast, the study subjects that Ridker and Cook used for comparison were "in all fairness... low-risk populations," said Stone.
At the very least, she told the state Senate, youthful offenders deserved a chance to have their cases reviewed for risk and fairness.
Although we have all tried to see if we could proceed with the case given the amount of work that has been done it seems to us that it is simply not possible to do that without running into some risk of fairness in the hearing.
