{"id":1719,"date":"2014-05-12T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1719"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:53","slug":"fairness-through-following-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/fairness-through-following-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness through Following the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fairness is treating people as equal and doing so in ways that, within that culture, are seen by everyone to be \u201cfair.\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). Essentially, people feel it is fair when those who \u201cdeserve\u201d things get them, and those who do \u201cnot deserve\u201d them do not get them.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs a behavior, fairness comes from an attitude of respect for local priorities and an eagerness to learn from people\u2014from many people at many levels\u2014what the rules of the game are for them, in that context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Fairness through Following the rules<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we follow the rules and it is clear that we are doing so, we reinforce the connecting mindset. Most rules are not arbitrary. They were created for a reason\u2014often a very good reason, locally. When we disregard rules, we are seen as scofflaws. This perception leads people to expect the worst from us.<\/p>\n<p>Following the rules is a way of showing respect. Discussing rules we do not agree with also shows respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/fairness-through-recognizing-value\/\" title=\"Fairness through Recognizing Value\">Fairness through Recognizing Value<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-fairness\/\" title=\"Organizations and Fairness\">Organizations and Fairness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/unfairness-through-different-value-for-different-lives\/\">Unfairness through demonstrating Different Value for Different Lives<\/a><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=\"Using Fairness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-fairness\/\">Using Fairness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairness is treating people as equal and doing so in ways that, within that culture, are seen by everyone to be \u201cfair.\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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":11022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions\/2705"}],"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=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}