COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

The “veil of ignorance” was invented because humans only care about fairness when it might affect them.

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The veil of ignorance was proposed by philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice (1971) as a thought experiment for choosing fair principles without knowing one's own place in society. It is a tool for reasoning about justice.

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