Who wants a leader who is fair-minded?

[coberst]

Who wants a leader who is fair-minded?

Is your lawyer fair-minded? Is your big brother fair-minded when you need help? Is your politician fair-minded? Do you want a fair-minded politician as your advocate? In an adversarial capitalistic society like the US do I lose if my advocate is fair-minded?

What does fair-minded mean? Webster says fair-minded is marked by honesty—impartiality. Do I want my advocate to be impartial and honest? Will I not be a complete loser when I go into a contest to get my share; won’t I come out as a complete loser if ‘my main man’ is impartial?

I think I need an advocate who is more partial than the next guy if I am to ‘get my share’; in fact I want the most unfair-minded SOB in the country to be my advocate! Some very important person, probably that baseball manager—I forget his name, said “impartial guys finish last.

I am inclined to think that evil equals fair-minded. Perhaps that is what Bush meant when he warned us against the ‘axis of evil’. Also Reagan probably meant that Russia was “A fair-minded empire.

[K.Snyder]

I like to use empathy as much as I can, but that doesn't mean I'm able to sympathize in all instances...

Sure, my entire virtue in life is to see everything from all angles and to strive for equality, and if choosing the good over the bad happens to not benefit me one bit materialistically then so be it...I would rather be without it. I think one needs to know what "good" is for them divinely, as opposed to assuming, before they can consider one being better than the other. Impartiality is far from insufficient in the eyes of the humble, everything else is a luxury coveted by the greedy. Start with the necessities, and you'll find there is no such thing as impartiality, only good taste and kindness.