I"m not sure if this even applies to the discussion at hand, but I heard somewhere that the English concept of "fairness" was difficult to translate into other languages.
Any bilinguists out there can disconfirm, please do. But if so it makes an interesting case for being one of the underlying assumptive pillars of capitalism, as well as equality. John On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Craig, previously] > > There is an equivocation here between 'equitable' & '(un)equal'. > > 'Equitable' means "fair or just to all parties". > > That is not necessarily the same as equal. > [dmb] > > "equality" means equal treatment under the law, equal opportunity in > civic society > > > So make that a trivocation. Equality as: > "fair or just to all parties", "equal share" or "equal opportunity". > Craig > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
