Originally Posted by
Alextanium
Indulge me for a moment with a thought experiment:
I give you total power to create any society you like. You can snap your fingers and in an instant create a society replete with all its laws, customs and prohibitions, on anything you like. But before I allow you to create it, I tell you the catch. You will be incarnated as a being living within the society you create. And you will not know in advance whether you are male, female, black, white, asian, young, old, gay, straight, democrat, republican, geek, sport enthusiast, able bodied, disabled, atheist, theist, polytheist, or indeed even human or animal. Given that you will be completely ignorant of who or what you will be in this society once created, what principle ought your society be based upon when you are constructing it?