Please consider steelmanning (as opposed to strawmanning) ideas you come across. To call an idea considered by numerous people as important "inane" seems inappr

Please consider steelmanning (as opposed to strawmanning) ideas you come across. To call an idea considered by numerous people as important "inane" seems inappropriate. You do suggest you may be misunderstanding the idea, but rather than inquisitively asking for an elaboration, you call it stupid. You should try to think of a more charitable interpretation of the idea. Here's a thought: in a society as unequal as ours, with many people in power satisfied with the status quo, what Rawls is asking them to do is to imagine that they could have been born randomly into any of the families in our society. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/steelmanning https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/steelmanning