Fairness-driven giving is distinct from welfare-trade-off favoritism.

Evidence

The WTR indexes the value one places on another person’s welfare and the extent to which one is disposed, on that basis, to trade off one’s own welfare against the welfare of that person (for an example, see Sell et al. 2009). The WTR between two individuals is predicted to be a function of the basic interdependence of their respective fitness … Fairness may lead individuals to give resources to people whose welfare is of no particular interest to them or even to people whose welfare is detrimental to their own. To the extent that morality implies impartiality, parental instinct and friendship are not intrinsically moral. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 16

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose: the fumi-e trampling destroys partner choice — this WTR vs. fairness distinction is precisely the mechanism by which forced public apostasy dismantles favoritism-based cooperation. — connects to: Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 591; Parochial altruism and self-sacrifice exceed mutualistic fairness models. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 269; Fairness in economic games tracks perceived entitlement rather than raw contribution. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 467 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The tension between WTR-based favoritism and impartial fairness as the fault line between pre-moral cooperation and genuine morality is a genuinely dense conceptual pivot worth sitting with.

Related

• Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. (similarity 0.85)
• Fairness is not reducible to mutualistic partner choice. (similarity 0.84)
• Fairness evolved to distribute payoffs by input, not equally. (similarity 0.84)
• Fairness rests on impartiality, not mutualistic cooperation. (similarity 0.83)
• Fairness judgments track each participant’s earned contribution, not just payoff equality. (similarity 0.82)
• Earned entitlements reshape perceived fairness in resource division. (similarity 0.82)
• Fairness is self-interested because stingy partners get abandoned. (similarity 0.82)
• Morality is about fair cooperation, not maximizing welfare. (similarity 0.81)
• Deriving fairness from bargaining power threatens to reduce moral norms to mere bargaining. (similarity 0.81)
• A preference for fairness can directly favor equalitarianism in cooperation. (similarity 0.81)
• Parochial altruism and self-sacrifice exceed mutualistic fairness models. (similarity 0.81)
• Fairness in economic games tracks perceived entitlement rather than raw contribution. (similarity 0.80)
• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. (similarity 0.79)
• Fairness evolves from partner choice, not partner control (similarity 0.79)
• Shared fairness intuitions cannot explain distributive variability when beliefs and situations are held constant. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. #expands (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 591
• Fairness in economic games tracks perceived entitlement rather than raw contribution. #complicates (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 467
• Earned entitlements reshape perceived fairness in resource division. #complicates (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 117
• Parochial altruism and self-sacrifice exceed mutualistic fairness models. #contradicts (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 269