“It was a coarse and feckless viciousness” (Bulwer Lytton)
Former Clinton independent counsel Kenneth Starr said Sunday that the American public is "behind the veil of ignorance" as special counsel Robert Mueller's probe unfolds and that there is no way to know whether former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's recent plea deal portends more legal turmoil for President Donald Trump.
“What one finds out in getting into an investigation is, 'Oh my word' — there are different avenues that come to you," Starr said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union."
"We just don’t know," he added. "We’re behind the veil of ignorance.”
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Starr’s ignorance of the term, much less the veil, may also say much about how Ken Starr treated student sexual assault while at Baylor U., clueless about actual moral considerations, having published with Kavanaugh’s help, what the Republicans might call official pornography.
The "veil of ignorance" is a method of determining the morality of political issues proposed in 1971 by American philosopher John Rawls in his "original position" political philosophy. It is based upon the following thought experiment: people making political decisions imagine that they know nothing about the particular talents, abilities, tastes, social class, and positions they will have within a social order. When such parties are selecting the principles for distribution of rights, positions, and resources in the society in which they will live, this "veil of ignorance" prevents them from knowing who will receive a given distribution of rights, positions, and resources in that society. For example, for a proposed society in which 50% of the population is kept in slavery, it follows that on entering the new society there is a 50% likelihood that the participant would be a slave. The idea is that parties subject to the veil of ignorance will make choices based upon moral considerations, since they will not be able to make choices based on their own self- or class-interest.
"A coarse and feckless viciousness is the operating procedure of his White House, and the poison spreads to everyone.” Bob Woodward