I suspect it's more that we can build institutions and those institutions can be imbued with rules we think are ideal and power to enforce said rules. That we c

I suspect it's more that we can build institutions and those institutions can be imbued with rules we think are ideal and power to enforce said rules. That we can apply concepts like "what rules would I want to apply if I didn't know my starting position?" to decide on desirable rules helps a lot too.