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Friday, January 27, 2006 of rawls and rationing 10:52 PM rawls gave us another view of the social contract theory, which he called the original position. in his version, he bases his theory on the assumption on the veil of ignorance. now what is the veil of ignorance? i was baffled too. but this is what he did. he put the theory into a context. the issue was the purchasing of HDB flats in sg, on how one is unable to purchase a hdb flat unless you're married, or living with a relative. that means that homosexuals, single parents, and unmarried people who want to purchase a flat, well, can't. unless you're above 35, then you're allowed to do whatever you want. what kenneth did was to give us all characters. characters in different scenarios - you could be a 48 year old homemaker living in a condo by the sea with 2 kids, and you're quite apathetic to the housing scenario, cos it doesn't concern you, or you could be a homosexual living with parents and 3 other siblings in a small 3 rm flat and you cant move out cos you're gay even if you have the money, you can't biu ya house, or you could have been a single mother who has a kid out of wedlock unable to buy a house, or a wife who wants to divorce her abusive husband, or a rich business man who doesn;t want to pay tax to subsidize housing - and you're supposed to react to the policy keeping the character assigned to you in mind. after arguing back and forth on why you want to change/not change the housing policy, kenneth takes back our characters. now we are identity less, and we don't know what situation we could be in. in such a state, would we or would we not support the housing policy? the probability that you could end up as the single mum or as the rich business man is equally high. so how would your response to the policy change? woah. it was so interesting. and hilarious. (esp guys who ended being housewives or ended up with an abusive husband. hahaha. we were hysterical.) point is, kenneth got the point across beautifully. if only all lessons could be this fun. =) anyway, my parents ran away for a romantic holiday. by themselves. and left me behind all by myself. sigh. i am unloved. hahaha. so i decided no point gg home, since they're not in. and besides, all my books are here, and i have ot go for dance class like almost everyday so might as well rot in hall. and huren's celebrating his bday and i may go for nus sikh soc's bhangra nite, so we'll see how things go. haha. and i realised, that i have to scrounge for my own food!! yargh. i refuse to hungry. im set for the next 2 days if i ration my resources but after monday...i may run out of fooood. TRAGIC i say. hahhaa. i will not allow myself to starrrrve!! i cant even beg/borrow from neighbours, no one is in. =( hall is empTy. sigh. i wonder how livin goverseas will be like if i am struggling to feed myself for 4 days. hah. 0 comments |