If you modify the scenario by postulating that the pie is accompanied by a note reading “I hereby leave this pie as a gift to whomever finds it. Enjoy. -- Flying Pie-Baking Monster”, how does that make the problem any easier?
If, indeed, it requires that we imagine a flying pie-baking monster in order to come up with a situation in which the concept of ‘fairness’ is actually relevant (e.g. not immediately trumped by an external factor), then it suggests that the concept of ‘fairness’ is in the real world virtually irrelevant. I notice also that the three have arrived separately and exactly simultaneously, another rarity, but also important to make ‘fairness’ an issue.
If you modify the scenario by postulating that the pie is accompanied by a note reading “I hereby leave this pie as a gift to whomever finds it. Enjoy. -- Flying Pie-Baking Monster”, how does that make the problem any easier?
If, indeed, it requires that we imagine a flying pie-baking monster in order to come up with a situation in which the concept of ‘fairness’ is actually relevant (e.g. not immediately trumped by an external factor), then it suggests that the concept of ‘fairness’ is in the real world virtually irrelevant. I notice also that the three have arrived separately and exactly simultaneously, another rarity, but also important to make ‘fairness’ an issue.