{"id":1712,"date":"2014-05-12T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1712"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:53","slug":"unfairness-through-ignoring-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/unfairness-through-ignoring-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfairness through Ignoring the Rules"},"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 Ignoring the Rules<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every society has rules, which are, in general, communal and agreed upon. When we discount them, we show contempt for the community and their processes.<\/p>\n<p>The dividing mindset sees rules as arbitrary and binding only on others. The powerful do not have to obey them. When in a position to enforce them, the dividing mindset is inconsistent and plays favorites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/unfairness-through-different-value-for-different-lives\/\" title=\"Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives\">Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-unfairness\/\" title=\"Organizations and Unfairness\">Organizations and Unfairness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Fairness through Following the Rules\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/fairness-through-following-the-rules\/\">Fairness through Following the Rules<\/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":11012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1712","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\/1712","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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1712\/revisions\/2702"}],"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=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}