The "veil of ignorance" is important to Rawls's theory because
A) the initial symmetry between persons in the original situation ensures that their deliberations occur in a fair situation.
B) it helps to avoid conflicts of interests between rational people who are deliberating about principles of justice.
C) it ensures that the basic institutions are the subject of the deliberations in the original position.
D) it is the starting point for an authoritarian theory of justice.
A
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