
130) You Shouldn't Want "Fair" - How Seeking "Fairness" Keeps you stuck
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Why Do You Want Fairness?
Evolution has led to your brain valuing fairness over all else. The only way we would choose to do something unfair is when it's for the sake of survival. This is why people will commit crimes and atrocities when they have their backs up against the wall. But barring a scenario like that, when our survival is immediately threatened, your brain always wants fairness. It demands it. And if we lived in a lovely La La Land, where again, gumdrops rain from the sky and fairness was a law of the universe, that would be great. But we don't. And that's not how life is fairness is not the rule of the universe unfairness is. Fairness is about
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