When the British say they are "fair and just," the query immediately to mind is whether we are merely hearing repetitive defend rhetoric or are being enlightened by some self-assurance that the British not only believe what they say but can also evidence this self-assurance that they claim. Intellectually, the self-assurance boasts two separate qualities; fair and just notwithstanding the universal consensual assumption that the two represent the same value (yet are expressed in tautology). Fairness - from which fair emerged as both an adjective and a verb - is an inherent quality of the...
When the British say they are "fair and just," the query immediately to mind is whether we are merely hearing repetitive defend rhetoric or are being ...