What do you means by faiR?

Nelstar SG

Sweeping statements can be easily proven wrong only when it comes in situations where the statement is used on cases with fixed possibilities and probabilities and random occurences are limited to zero.

Thus there is no absolute rule to how you can judge how much of the statement holds true.

So your insistence to reduce the necessity of utilizing "Never" is not justified but understood as politically correct in my opinion.

Laughing

antoh SG

it is fair if there is some human respect to singaporeans. it is fair when they hear our views. it is fair when decision is by us not by them.

pokkagreentea SG

fair means we benefit la. No loss of $$ and everybody's happy.

TYING SG

Nothing is fair in this world. Biasity happens everywhere.

NoSuchPerson SG

Wow, I get a fair number of different opinions for different point of view. Especially with views from january and Nelstar.

I have a kind of thinking that I wonder what you guys think. If I were to say, everything in this world is fair and everything is made in balance. The thing that gives birth to the word fair and unfair is due to humans' greed.

Let me give some example to support my statement.

All energy is not created from no where and it doesn't disappear. It merely changes from potential energy into kinetic energy and things like this.

All births leads to deaths. Power leads to greed and Famous leads to jealousy.

Now these might prove that everything is made equal and balance. because all events leads to some changes be it in the form of though or physical.

The only thing is when human feel unfair is caused by their peronsal greed.

As they don't get what they want and they want to fight for what they want, they start to think of "fair" & "unfair".

I think I'm thinking too much but initially I thought the word "fair" is such a "good" word but if think deeper, it actually derives from something "politically bad".

Cool

Darkness_hacker99 SG

The only thing fair ish the govt increase the non-Singaporean fees.

eyebuzz SG

What Is Fairness? - Cardinal
Let's suppose that person A and person B are sitting together in a room when an angel appears in a burst of light and says "Be not afraid! Here are 100 grapes for your enjoyment - divide them fairly between the two of you, and then consume them." Then the angel vanishes.

How should A and B divide the grapes? As it happens, person A likes grapes twice as much as person B does. (For the purists, assume that each of them has constant marginal utility and that these facts are commonly known.) The following dialogue ensues:

A: In order to divide them fairly, we should split the grapes evenly - 50 to you, 50 to me.

B: That's not a fair division: I like grapes half as much as you, so if we split 50-50, I only end up half as happy as you are. A truly fair division would make us equally happy. Therefore, I should get 66 grapes, and you should get 34.

A: That's ridiculous! It can't be fair to give fewer grapes to the person who likes them more. Our individual happiness is irrelevant - fairness means splitting the grapes evenly, nothing more.

B: How can our individual happiness be irrelevant? The whole point of having the grapes is to makes ourselves happier. It's the quantity of grapes that is irrelevant here - neither of us cares about how many grapes we get except through how much utility we will gain from eating them. Our happiness is the relevant concept to equalize here.

My take: B is right in that happiness is the relevant quantity, but this notion of fairness verges upon the absurd when one person has much lower utility for an item than the other. A is confused to think that fairness is in any way connected with efficiency. I think that fairness is a concept that is often devoid of a coherent meaning, even though people often feel very strongly about it. I'd advise avoiding the question "What is fair?" and instead considering practical questions like "What has been agreed?" and "What is practically achievable?"

Conclusion: The two fight for hours over the fair way to divide the grapes, finally deciding that the only allocation that was fair under both their definitions was for each of them to have no grapes. Or A divides, B chooses. That's fair. Embarassed

Syndicate SG

U should go out of SG and look around. Maybe you will find that you're lucky to be here. The world is never fair.

NoSuchPerson SG

I always feels that SG is the best place to live in. Hmm, probably I never go out before. One thing for sure is that all my loved ones is in SG. Cool

CyNdI)4.eVa SG

ntuc fairprice.

BlackRose_Project SG

Yes…comparing to other countries like US or Australia… the GST is much2 more than 10% and the tax is awfully way higher than us here. Exept of course, the properties n cars there are much more cheaper. Plus, SIngapore is a safe country. Everywhere u go, there will be proS n Cons..so u yourself should choose what kinda life u wana live in.

aeskay SG

fair is when
1) things are favourable to yourself
2) things are considerable favourable to others, after condition 1) has been fulfiled.

haha tts how i understand ppl's idea of 'fairness' to be = most importantly, themselves must not lose out Laughing

anw i think the GST is ok, but why do dey have to impose GST on the bare neccesities like food? food is like, everybody needs it, rich or poor. if u put GST on such basic needs like food, den wun the poor suffer as well?

onceinabluemoon SG

check out this article: is it fair to take as much as possible other people's money?

have kill in error, no letting off

Komon SG

Just like when a boy tell the girl " I Love You Forever" In reality i dun really believe it too Wink

supremecobra SG

hey wassup: just to clarify the govt up the GST by 2% POINT
but a increase of 5 to 7 is about a 40%percent jump....
if u think of it that way... its lagi scary!

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