Perplexed comments on Non-personal preferences of never-existed people - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 March 2011 07:54PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 12 March 2011 12:43:05AM 1 point [-]

Yes. Roughly speaking, a Nash bargain could-have/should-have been made to that effect in the "Original Position" when we were both operating under Rawls's "Veil of Ignorance". I don't completely buy Rawls's "Theory of Justice", but it makes a lot more sense to me than straight utilitarianism.