What we owe each other

Their class and social position

Their natural talents

Their conception of the good life

General facts of economics and psychology

Any inequality that makes the least advantaged group better off than they would be under a more equal arrangement

Only inequalities that arise from voluntary transfer

No inequality of any kind

Any inequality that raises the average

No basis for probabilities, a satisfactory guaranteed minimum, and unacceptable worst outcomes in the alternatives

Whenever the stakes are high

Whenever the chooser is risk averse

Whenever the outcomes are equally likely

A chooser ignorant of their identity should assign equal probability to being anyone and maximise expected utility, giving average utilitarianism

The veil of ignorance is incoherent

Maximin gives the same answer as expected utility

Primary goods cannot be ranked

Acquisition, since nearly all holdings trace back through conquest and enclosure rather than legitimate first acquisition

Transfer, since nobody exchanges voluntarily

Rectification, since nobody agrees it is required

All three are equally secure

A principle can be rejected only by a person on the ground of the burden it places on them, and complaints may not be summed across people

Only individuals rather than states can be wronged

Every person must agree before a principle is adopted

Each person may reject only one principle

That no number of trivial complaints adds up to one serious complaint

That the numbers never count

That rescue is always required

That contractualism collapses into utilitarianism

True

False