Chapter 4. Entropy of Fairness (Sample Paragraphs)

This chapter would discuss an important social dynamics driven by fairness.

Entropy is a vocabulary used in natural science to describe the chaotic degree of disorder in a physical system. In this Chapter I am borrowing this vocabulary to describe the chaotic effect of fairness on social status of a group of people, as well as its significance in human social life by and large.

 

Social order and fairness both are essential to a civilized society. They both in general sound positive. However, they do not always serve to each other in simple sense. In fact, the demand of fairness could increase the difficulty to build up a social order, no matter for good or for bad. Human history has witnessed a great number of events where the demand of fairness was the main driving force behind positive social changes; but human history has also witnessed too many cases of negative political turmoil due to power struggle in name of fairness between different interest groups.