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Old Fri May 23, 2008, 06:49am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by MrUmpire
Fairness has nothing to do with it. The rules aren't fair in numerous places. Our job is to see that neither team gets an advantage not intended by the rules, not to decide what is fair and what isn't.
Ah, now we're just quibbling over 'fair'. All I mean is, unfair="advantage not intended by the rules." In general, for any game the rules define fairness (that's why "life is not fair"). You must have some more substantive notion of fairness in mind.
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