Almost everyone have heard speak about fair trade, this involves that an unfair trade would exist. All is affair of values officially translated by a convention. A convention being that is made and ascertained durably by an agreement, it concerns a germ of institution. So, when do we pass from a fair thing to an unfair one and by what means?
According to opinion a thing wrote in law, it’s fair. For it, the fair does appear in daily life that in what Humanity has right or not. Our minds mix, in fact, the fair and the lawful, that is to say between its own justice feeling and what is defined in law. Thus, the fair and unfair are only conventions, relativizing them, we can affirm, in effect, all that we want and justify all this.
During the centuries in , slavery and capital punishment were allowed, today we get indignant all. For centuries, this practice inscribed in law was being considered like fair. Then, we see clearly that convention has the relativity for essential characteristic. In effect, its enough to cross a frontier to notice that what is permitted in one place, is not in the other (death penalty don’t act in all states of USA).
Fair trade wishes to decrease trade differences between the North an third world countries. Fair trade cause seems to be fair and appeals to a feeling of justice because it supplies a fair payment to the one who needs more. A day, fair trade initiative will be the rule and so a mark in convention will appear. And so we see that a convention is always late for evolution in manners.
We see that fair trade is being founded to help the third world to develop economically. The fair and the unfair are dependent at the same time of convention and of a value which is moral value (respect). In image of fair trade, the fairest conventions wouldn’t be these that are still not promulgated?
