People have long considered how to appropriately structure society in order to provide the most justice and equality for all. Governments have been attempting to implement constitutions that provide these justice. However, before an emerging state can provide a just constitution, the theories of justice behind the constitution must be valid. Although Rawls has created a theory of justice that can detect injustice well, the rational falls short of persuasive as it disregards interpersonal comparisons of utilities, alternatives to the maximin strategy, and the end result principle.
Before we can understand what Rawls’ theory of justice is, we must first understand the situation in which he imagines the theory of justice being initiated for society -- he calls this the original position. He uses the original position as an argument to show that his theory, put into practice of a bargaining game, would be chosen over other theories of justice. The bargaining game is a fictitious situation in which there is no fixed utility in society, also called a non-constant sum game. The players of this game are all self-interested, rational players who need to work together to find out a way to fairly distribute utility throughout society.
In this game, the players start in the original position. The original position has two caveats though.
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