And really the conditions of the OP are actively contrary to good decision-making, e.g. that you don’t know your particular conception of the good (??) or that you’re essentially self-interested. . .
Well, they’re inimical to good personal self-interested decision making, but why would that matter? Do you think justice and self interested rationality are the same? If they are differerent, what’s the problem? Rawl’s theory would not necessarily predict the behaviour of a self interested agent , but it’s not supposed to. It’s a normative theory: justly is how people should behave, not how they invariably do. If they have their own theories of ethics, well they are theories and not necessarily correct. Mere disagreement between the front-of-the-veil and behind-the-veil versions of a person doesn’t tell you much.
There’s no reason to think, generally, that people disagree with John Rawls only because of their social position or psychological quirks
They might have a well constructed case against him, he might have a well constructed case against them.
Well, they’re inimical to good personal self-interested decision making, but why would that matter? Do you think justice and self interested rationality are the same? If they are differerent, what’s the problem? Rawl’s theory would not necessarily predict the behaviour of a self interested agent , but it’s not supposed to. It’s a normative theory: justly is how people should behave, not how they invariably do. If they have their own theories of ethics, well they are theories and not necessarily correct. Mere disagreement between the front-of-the-veil and behind-the-veil versions of a person doesn’t tell you much.
They might have a well constructed case against him, he might have a well constructed case against them.