{"id":1710,"date":"2014-05-12T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1710"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:53","slug":"unfairness-through-different-value-for-different-lives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/unfairness-through-different-value-for-different-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unfairness lies in treating people in a way that they \u201cdo not deserve\u201d. Fairness is an interesting challenge when working in different cultures in that local understandings of fairness differ. Every society has clear notions of what is fair and unfair. Every society has rules and norms that everyone understands as fair (and unfair). Breaking those rules demonstrates disrespect both for people and for their society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dividing mindset does think some people are worth more than others. This attitude is emphasized constantly through preferential treatment of some group or groups over others. The social rules, as well as laws, can also be designed to discriminate against groups.<\/p>\n<p>Interveners can slip into this mindset due to laziness, fear, or organizational policies. Combined with the Distribution Effect, interventions and interveners can be perceived as demonstrating preferential treatment to the group receiving benefits from the intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"info\">An organization held a Do No Harm training just out of town. At night, the local staff was dropped off at a bus station to get home, while the international staff were driven directly to their homes. (Needless to say, the next day\u2019s session was quite intense. There was a lot of learning done that day!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/positive-patterns-of-behavior-based-in-fairness\/\" title=\"Positive Patterns of Behavior based in Fairness\">Positive Patterns of Behavior based in Fairness<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/unfairness-through-ignoring-the-rules\/\" title=\"Unfairness through Ignoring the Rules\">Unfairness through Ignoring the Rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Organizations and Unfairness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-unfairness\/\">Organizations and Unfairness<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Fairness through Recognizing Value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/fairness-through-recognizing-value\/\">Fairness through Recognizing Value<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Organizations and Fairness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-fairness\/\">Organizations and Fairness<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Using Fairness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-fairness\/\">Using Fairness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfairness lies in treating people in a way that they \u201cdo not deserve\u201d. Fairness is an interesting challenge when working in different cultures in that local understandings of fairness differ. Every society has clear notions of what is fair and unfair. Every society has rules and norms that everyone understands as fair (and unfair). Breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":11011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions\/2701"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}