Our team is redesigning our promotion criteria and someone suggested we use the original position framework, but when we actually try to imagine not knowing our current roles or backgrounds, people keep slipping back into defending what would benefit them personally. The exercise is revealing how invested we all are in maintaining our advantages.
More people experience this than they realize.
Attempting genuine impartiality exposes how difficult it is to transcend self-interest even when committed to fairness.
“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.