Continuing the analogy between games and life, is fairness really a thing?


Lincoln Stoller, PhD, 2025. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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“Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn’t fair.”
Severus Snape, from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling

Straight Forward Games
Playing a fair game is an expression that can refer to living a balanced life…

Not So Simple Life
Many of the same expectations and rewards of a fair game apply to life…

Where Being Fair Starts
Move aside what you’ve arranged at the front of your personality…

Fairness is Honesty
A fair game, like a fair situation, is one that reveals itself…

Driving Toward the Future
Consider how we live our lives: there are no traffic rules, turn signals, or speed limits…

Balance is Most Important
Fairness is how you play, but balance is what you play for…

Back to the Game
When we live, we pick our games too, our decisions are just more complicated…

Counsellors
I recognize what I do as an important, additional element in people’s lives…


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