Like all men in Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a 
slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.... I owe that 
almost monstrous variety to an institution--the Lottery--which is 
unknown in other nations, or at work in them imperfectly or secretly. 
--Jorge Luis Borges, "The Lottery in Babylon" 
 
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. This 
ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of 
principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social 
circumstances. Since all are similarly situated and no one is able to 
design principles to favor his particular condition, the principles of  ...

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