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When research partners' backgrounds affect their justice reasoning

My research partner and I are studying inequality and we're supposed to be applying rawlsian analysis, but we come from very different class backgrounds and I think that's affecting how we interpret the thought experiment. She sees certain inequalities as justified that I think violate the difference principle, but we haven't figured out how to address this directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal social positions influence how people apply supposedly universal principles of justice, even among those trained in impartial reasoning.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”

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