What would a truly “fair” society look like?

Question

John Rawls believes that for a society to be “truly just, it must be truly fair.” Imagine that everything about a person was “hidden behind a veil of ignorance” that would conceal all information concerning the person’s gender, age, race, talents, education, and anything that would define that person as an individual.

What then would a truly “fair” society look like?

Answer 1

CANADA ! ||*||

lol.

Answer 2

a truly fair society would be that everyone has the exact same job, the exact same paycheck, the exact same house, the exact same laws (meaning children can vote at age 5...and drink alcohol before 21 and get their lisence when they are first born.)

^thats fair....is it good? NO!

Answer 3

I think the bigger question is what makes a society fair? There is no fairness, and even if there is people will still assume it's left to luck. Even chance isn't fair, you flip a coin, coincidence can still be taken as luck by some.

Answer 4

it would be hecka boring

sum things just arent suppose to be fair

and i like it that way ( =  

Answer 5

Utopia!

Answer 6

The world wasn't intended to be that way. We all have different talents and intelligence.

If it were truly "fair" it would be incredibly ignorant. Because most of the time, the ones who benefit from the "fairness" are the ones who were worse off before. It would be pretty boring.  

Answer 7

communism

Answer 8

It's impossible to have a completely "fair" society.  Someone always gets some sort of raw deal.  That's why it's important to have a free society.    

Answer 9

Try reading the giver by luis lowery (i think thats how its spelled). Thats a mostly fair society except for being released. Also, to be "hidden behind a veil of ignorance" you wouldnt have to be literaly behind a veil to conceil personal information. You would just have to be raised and told constantly that everyone is equal and apperances dont matter (basically rewire your brain to stop forming conclusions from apperances)

Answer 10

You cannot imagine this. This image is also not even something I would wish to imagine, because this society to me seems like one not even worth living in. What is life without a bit of a struggle. If we didn't have differing ideals to defend, different beliefs, prejudices that we strive to abolish, and clashing personalities to add technicolor to the otherwise black-and-white, silent movie that you describe, what reason would we have to even live, to even survive or exist? I would prefer to live in a world of undead zombies to fight than this supposedly 'perfect' scenario you describe.

Answer 11

I believe a truly fair society, would be hard to come by. Too many people think only of themselves. And on top of that we have mentally ill people who could not work will in a truly fair society (by this I mean sociopaths and psychotics(spelling?)). But a great education for EVERYONE would be a good start.