| MTZehvor said: The definition is highly concerned with background equality. One of (admittedly several) definitons of fair, according to Dictionary.com: Fair: "Without cheating or gaining an unjust advantage." What I (and I believe OP) are referring to is that particular definition of the word. Fair, as we're using it, pertains to ensuring that no one has any sort of "unjust" advantage coming into a game, a competition, or in this case, life. As the world stands currently, billions of people are put at an unjust (which is simply a lack of what is morally right) disadvantage due to the world's past, i.e. colonialism, slavery, and simply where they are born. Thus, it is not "fair." That is all we're saying. |
The past may have been the dark times as far as ethical concerns go but what would be considered international crimes is not unjust when it comes to playing the game known as economics ... (It does not care about morals either.)
The world is as it is, "Let those with power dominate the weak." ... 
It maybe sad what happened in the past but there should be no excuses when a new generation has come upon us ...
