Fairness
“I treat everyone equally and fairly, and give everyone the same chance applying the same rules to everyone.”
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What is Fairness?
Fairness is treating people justly, not letting your personal feelings bias your decisions about others. You want to give everyone a fair chance, and believe there should be equal opportunity for all, though you also realize that what is fair for one person might not be fair for another.
Fairness is a cognitive judgment capacity that involves reasoning and making judgments. It involves 2 types of reasoning:
Justice reasoning which emphasizes logic and weighing principles to determine moral rights and responsibilities.
Care reasoning which includes empathy and compassion; the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes.
Which Virtue Is This Strength?
Fairness is a strength within the virtue category of justice, one of six virtues that subcategorize the 24 strengths. Justice describes strengths that help you connect in community or group-based situations. The other strengths in Justice are fairness, leadership, and teamwork.
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Research findings on the benefits of the strength of fairness found that fair-minded individuals are more likely to engage in positive, prosocial behaviors and less likely to engage in illegal and immoral behavior. Learn how to activate this strength and all of your other strengths with your personalized Total 24 Report.
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