Tag: fairness

Fairness and justice are not the same, but there is some overlap between them. And the distinction between fairness and justice is useful to diagnose certain problems in sport. A game and its rules may be fair – in the sense that they apply equally to all competitors – but, nevertheless, there is sometimes a residue of injustice (or even a travesty of justice). And we also encounter this in the law: that’s why Aristotle wants equity to make up for the deficiencies in the law.