One very funny consecuence of defining “fair” as “that which everyone agrees to be “fair”“ is that if you indeed could convince everyone of the correctness of that definition, nobody could ever know what IS “fair”, since they would look at their definition of “fair”, which is “that which everyone agrees to be “fair””, then they would look at what everyone does agree to be fair, and conclude that “that which everyone agrees to be “fair” is “that which everyone agrees to be “fair”″”, and so on!
However I think that in this post you are spilling too much ink over a trivial thing—you are too attached to the word “fair”. One of my favourite rationalist’s techniques is to not be attached to particular symbols at all, but only to referents. You could answer Zaire simply by saying, “Alright, I accept that your way is “fair”, however I propose a better way that we can call “riaf”″, and then explain your referent of the symbol “fair” and why it is better than Zaire’s way.
One very funny consecuence of defining “fair” as “that which everyone agrees to be “fair”“ is that if you indeed could convince everyone of the correctness of that definition, nobody could ever know what IS “fair”, since they would look at their definition of “fair”, which is “that which everyone agrees to be “fair””, then they would look at what everyone does agree to be fair, and conclude that “that which everyone agrees to be “fair” is “that which everyone agrees to be “fair”″”, and so on!
However I think that in this post you are spilling too much ink over a trivial thing—you are too attached to the word “fair”. One of my favourite rationalist’s techniques is to not be attached to particular symbols at all, but only to referents. You could answer Zaire simply by saying, “Alright, I accept that your way is “fair”, however I propose a better way that we can call “riaf”″, and then explain your referent of the symbol “fair” and why it is better than Zaire’s way.