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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Another example is the retirement age, some bloke the to gov to the european court due to the sexist retirement laws which allowed women to retire at 60.
Result; women now have to work til 65.
Fair, not the result he wanted, and not the result many women wanted either!
Course we'll all be working til 75 soon anyway.
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Actually an old friend of mine had an interesting take on being fair (which you neatly illustrated). His attitude was that he was an equal b*st*rd to everyone (even me if I wanted something he didn't want to lend me).. It was still fair, even though no one liked it