impartiality

Since Mill's utilitarian is liberal, Mill has little patience for views, which he considers caricatures, in which utilitarianism doesn't care about distribution -- Mill reiterates, over and over, the importance of what he calls impartiality, and one soon realizes that this is in fact a principle governing distribution of benefits, one that he thinks is built into the principle of utility itself.

Siris 2008

The debate, though, will continue about whether the idea of impartiality is somehow a "false standard".

Juan Williams slipped up: he became the story Emily Bell 2010

Pure objectivity may be impossible in a subjective world, but like Diogenes and his search for an honest man, impartiality is hardly an unrewarding lamp to follow.

An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck 2010

That said, we're quite peachy with the notion that curtailing one's self-interest in the name of impartiality is a virtue.

Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

Also: "The aspiration to impartiality is just that — it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others."

Sotomayor speech at center of court nomination 2009

While I understand that to effectively enforce the law a degree of impartiality is required it is a fact that some normal people will react to scum and then will tell the police exactly what happened and get locked up.

The Single Measure Of Public Confidence « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

That said, we're quite peachy with the notion that curtailing one's self-interest in the name of impartiality is a virtue.

Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

So why is this faith in impartiality reserved only for Pakistan Muslim League supporters?

Syed Yahya Hussainy: Pakistan Taking the Wrong Lessons From American Politics Syed Yahya Hussainy 2010

There will probably be a spin-off for the Tories in all this: watch the BBC galloping to the centre as the election draws near and carefully (and probably ostentatiously as it no longer does ‘subtle’ very much) making sure that an veneer of impartiality is smeared over the whole which will last until about five minutes after the Tories win.

Archive 2008-03-30 2008

There will probably be a spin-off for the Tories in all this: watch the BBC galloping to the centre as the election draws near and carefully (and probably ostentatiously as it no longer does ‘subtle’ very much) making sure that an veneer of impartiality is smeared over the whole which will last until about five minutes after the Tories win.

Squeals of Fear at The Beeb 2008