But overarching laws, policies, practices, and customs should be fair and just for all, not just for a proportion of a population.
For al-Awlaki, an avowed jihadist, it means that once stripped of citizenship, he should be fair game for an all-out effort of the CIA and military to kill or capture him.
Similarly, in his appeal of the Minnesota ruling, the bankruptcy trustee is arguing that an inherited IRA should be fair game for creditors because the funds at issue are not the debtor's retirement funds.
"It should be fair … for all people.
Last month's inaugural Slow Food festival took place in Denver and included 305 speakers, 70 exhibitors and thousands of attendees, all ostensibly gathered to focus on the festival's core mission that "food should be available for everyone, not just the privileged classes; and food should be fair and just for all".
In trying to create and maintain a focus on the source and solution of the problem, the policy committee came up with a kind of watch-cry and mantra: public employee salaries and benefits should be "fair and sustainable" for both the employees and the taxpayers.
A fight should be fair, with equal chances for both participants, access to the best equipment, the best coaches -- right?
"If we are going to measure school performance, the systems involved should be fair and equitable, and comparable like-for-like... "There is potential in the principle of banding and I passionately believe in increased transparency for parents.
"I think we should be fair to all and wait for the result of the investigation and then we will make a statement," he said a couple of weeks ago.
The four principles are: the UK should take a fair and proportionate share of refugees, safe routes to the UK should be established, safe routes within the EU should be established and there should be fair procedures to determine eligibility for international protection of refugees.
