It’s one of those terms that sounds so good, until it is allowed to trump the normal and respected processes of debate, fact finding and deliberation. Fairness is a laudable goal. It isn’t necessarily a laudable authority because sometimes the fairest people are not chosen “fairly,” to use an oxymoron.
I feel sure you will appreciate this wisdom.
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” Aristotle