This critique comes from utilitarians like Harsanyi and misses Rawls's point. (He's not a utilitarian anyway.) You can be extremely risk prone and nevertheless

This critique comes from utilitarians like Harsanyi and misses Rawls's point. (He's not a utilitarian anyway.) You can be extremely risk prone and nevertheless come to the conclusion that society ought to help you in the unlikely event that you have to endure extreme hardships. There is a difference between personal risk taking behaviour and the more abstract, general considerations behind the veil of ignorance.