If I understand correctly, you’re saying that if you had Down Syndrome and your neighbor were healthy then you would want your neighbor to help you; so therefore in reality you are healthy and help your neighbor who has Down Syndrome; and this constitutes your obligation to them.
Yes. Roughly speaking, a Nash bargain could-have/should-have been made to that effect in the “Original Position” when we were both operating under Rawls’s “Veil of Ignorance”. I don’t completely buy Rawls’s “Theory of Justice”, but it makes a lot more sense to me than straight utilitarianism.
If I understand correctly, you’re saying that if you had Down Syndrome and your neighbor were healthy then you would want your neighbor to help you; so therefore in reality you are healthy and help your neighbor who has Down Syndrome; and this constitutes your obligation to them.
Is this correct?
Yes. Roughly speaking, a Nash bargain could-have/should-have been made to that effect in the “Original Position” when we were both operating under Rawls’s “Veil of Ignorance”. I don’t completely buy Rawls’s “Theory of Justice”, but it makes a lot more sense to me than straight utilitarianism.