Thank you. I've now read it. It's basically the white male privilege argument. I believe there's a wiser veil than Rawls' veil of ignorance. The veil I try to use is a variant on the utilitarian one: What will yield the most good for the most people without doing too-serious injustice to anyone.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/the-veil-of-opulence/?src=me&ref=general
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Thank you. I've now read it. It's basically the white male privilege argument. I believe there's a wiser veil than Rawls' veil of ignorance. The veil I try to use is a variant on the utilitarian one: What will yield the most good for the most people without doing too-serious injustice to anyone.
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