John Rawls famously asked us what it would be like to imagine what sort of society we would like if we didn't know what position we would have in that society. The assumption was that we would pick a society based on some sort of liberal compassion because we could not be sure that we might not been one of the people who needs compassion.
I'm sure that is true but what sort of compassion.
Would we really choose a society in which people were infantilized by rules that increasingly took responsibility away from them. I think that even if we accept the Rawlsian rules for imagining a society, we'd still want one in which people were left to fall on their faces if they make bad choices.
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