> I think it's John Rawls who suggested thinking about the world you want to be born into if you had no idea which gender or ethnic group or sexuality or body t

> I think it's John Rawls who suggested thinking about the world you want to be born into if you had no idea which gender or ethnic group or sexuality or body type you would be born as. This is the cognitive dissonance of our selfish nature. People are willing to buy home insurance because they don't know in advance whether they are in the unlucky group whose homes will burn down, or the lucky group. They don't feel jilted when their home doesn't burn down, and their premiums go to those whose homes did. But since men know from the outset they are in the lucky gender, many of them kick and scream when anything is taken away from them to help level the playing field.