
The Veil of Ignorance and Justice in a Lockdown
Brain in a Vat
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Is There a Fair Distribution of Resources in a Society?
The original experiment that Rawls' idea is so clever, because what it does is it removes any bias from the people engaged in the discussion. And he's called a liberal egalitarian, so in the sense that you care about freedom, but you also care about equality. He asked us to imagine a couple of different ways in which we could distribute resources in a society. But I think people should have a fair equality of opportunity.
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