0 the quality or fact of not treating people in an equal way, or of being morally wrong: --
They can recall the lasting resentment caused by a teacher's blatant unfairness.
The Act does not really address the fundamental unfairness of the system.
This implies that unfairness can be outweighed by a sufficient amount of good.
At the same time, the legal issue presupposes the moral one and the presumption of unfairness.
In the second scenario, the people are the victims of natural unfairness.
It may be better to save someone than no one, even if doing so involves some unfairness.
On the other hand, the moderate account of unfairness allows a tradeoff between unfairness and other considerations.
In addition, even if we could determine which inequalities involve comparative unfairness, it is extremely difficult to determine how bad a situation's inequality is.
Thus, according to the strict account of unfairness, unfairness cannot be outweighed by any amount of good, obtained by allowing the unfairness.
It therefore cannot ameliorate the unfairness of the social or natural lotteries.
