Friday, October 06, 2006

Randomness Is The Only True Dispenser Of Fairness

If you are confronted with a situation whereby a decision must be made impartially and there are a range of outcomes each with a certain possibility then the decision procedure must reflect the probabilities.This can only be done by randomizing the choices through the use of a random device.If you have to choose between two or more people for a task either bad or good and a decision cannot be made based on objective factors then the fair way is to let randomness decide which course of action to take.This way the decision and the decider are as one and cannot be improved upon.When a decision cannot be had by human deduction then don't make it.Nothing could be more fair than an honest coin toss.Societies which shun probabilities at once show thier ignorance and conceit and what could be more revolting than that.