[lit-ideas] That's No Cricket -- Oxford Criticises Rawls

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I would think 'fair involves some  degree of inequality' has to be taken 
with a pinch of cricket.

The idea  is:

in a game of cricket, all players are assumed to be equal. None of  them is 
allowed to have steroids, or to have three arms, either.

The veil  of ignorance is: some players (who are more fit than others) will 
count as  _just_ as fit, within the canon.

There may be other 'inqualities' Rawls's  simile allows us to understand 
when applied to cricket.

It cannot apply  to the 'constitutive rules' of the game: 'if the team 
includes the Prince of  Wales, there is an extra 80% of probability that his 
team will  win".

Neither 'regulative rules': one team will not be allowed to use a  bat.

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Cheers,

JLS  

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