Our nonprofit board is using the veil of ignorance to redesign our grant allocation process, but the members who currently benefit from our existing criteria keep finding ways to protect their advantages while claiming they're being impartial. I can see what's happening but calling it out directly feels like it would blow up the whole collaboration.
More people experience this than they realize.
People invoke fairness principles while unconsciously preserving their own positions of benefit.
“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.