"The veil of ignorance is a very elegant proposal to determine what social structures are just, put forward by John Rawls. The veil of ignorance principle says that a rule, or society, is just if it is a rule, or society, that would be agreed upon by everyone even if they were in a state of ignorance about their position within society is. For example, a law that gave half the people all the money wouldn’t be agreed upon because people wouldn’t know whether they would be among the half that got the money, and so the law is revealed to be unjust."
This is simple enough. It has been used many times by the left to substantiate "safety nets". I do not want to talk about these safety nets here, but I do want you to know that part of the ideology on the left comes from Rawls' veil of ignorance.
Arguments can be made that behind this veil of ignorance we would want equality, equal opportunity, wealth distribution, low taxes, high taxes, a justice system, or a myriad of other public policies.
One argument can not be made behind the veil of ignorance. Behind this veil of ignorance we would never want to give our biological mothers the opportunity to kill us before we even had a shot to be born at all.
Abortion makes no sense, even behind a veil of ignorance.
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