A sense of fairness is an universal ethic

I suggest that a sense of fairness is an universal ethic, not what is fair for everyone, but that I consider what is fair for me in the circumstances of my own existence.

And primary to "the circumstances of my own existence" is my being a member of a group, and then my status within that group.

I believe the basic political question is "What is fair?".

Because we have a positive emotional response to a sense of being treated fairly, and a negative emotional response to a sense of being treated unfairly, "fairness" is an evolutionary force. It pulls/pushes us to find fairness in how we are treated.

Fairness is not equality.

I believe a sense of fairness stems from the biological basis of human society as members of hunting tribes — or packs, if we were wolves — in which the kill was divided by the alpha leaders of the hunt.