Rawls says “Imagine how you would design society, if you knew that your enemy was going to assign you your place in it.”
The idea is that if you had an enemy and that enemy was assigning you a place, you would want to make the worst place in society as good as possible. If you’re looking at this in a completely impartial way, not knowing where you’ll end up in society, then you would design a just society.
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