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“Is it fairer for everyone to have the same opportunities or to have the same outcomes? Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? Is it fairer for decisions to be uniform or to embody an element of human empathy? Impartial justice or individual allowances? Is it fairer to let people know how decisions are made or to have an opaque system to prevent cheating? Transparency or security?”

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Book:Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
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“Practical considerations most often come up in the form of three fundamental questions a society needs to answer in order to function: Who gets what? (Rules of allocation) How do we decide who gets what? (Rules of decision) Who decides who decides? (Rules of political authority)”

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