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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3045683" data-attributes="member: 18280">I would certainly agree with you that the dynamic of any individual group can include a spoken or unspoken social contract, and that a violation of that social contract can be unfair, even if the thing which is therefore unfair is not intrinsically unfair in and of itself.  Drinking Diet Root Beer while gaming is not intrinsically unfair, but a social contract could be imagined wherein drinking Diet Root Beer could become unfair in context.Because a thing can be placed in a context where it becomes unfair does not make that thing unfair in and of itself.  A combination of A + B can be unfair, where neither A nor B are unfair on their own.I would say that fairness/unfairness exists within the individual group more as a construct of A + B than as a question of intrinsic fairness or unfairness.  Before you had agreed to three conditions that, if existing, would mean that the trap was unfair in the context of the OP.  You seem to be backing away from that agreement, and you haven't yet told me whether or not you find the assumptions I am making acceptable for discussing those conditions.Maybe, before we can even discuss whether or not this trap is fair, we should come up with some working definition of what fairness is?RC</blockquote>