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• John Rawls puts forward the following question for judging whether the law is fair: “What rules would be fair for me and everyone else when we are entirely ignorant of our characteristics, talents, desires, or circumstances?” To employ this concept properly, imagine: “I could be rich, poor, talented, less talented, attractive, less attractive, in the majority, or the minority, etc, etc, etc.”
• The veil of ignorance can be used to evaluate the many principles and rules necessary to complete the entirety of legal jurisprudence.
• From behind the veil of ignorance, it is easy to conclude that no matter your station in life, you likely do not want to be aggressed against. This is why a legal rule prohibiting all forms of aggression and applying equally to all people, groups, corporations, and the government makes sense. It is likely the very first rule that people who disagree on everything else would agree on first.