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    It is not the case that The parties in the original position should choose a savings principle that is fair to all generations.

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    • 1.The veil of ignorance cannot coherently extend to generational position, since parties must assume a determinate society whose institutions already exist across time.
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    • 2.Rawls's own device of the original position presupposes contemporaneous persons contracting, making intergenerational ignorance a conceptual inflation of the procedure beyond its designed scope.
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    • 1.Derek Parfit's non-identity problem shows that savings policies alter which persons exist, so future persons cannot be wronged by policies that are the very condition of their existence.
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    • 2.A savings principle purporting to be 'fair to all generations' cannot be grounded in justice-as-reciprocity when the beneficiaries of present sacrifice are not yet determinate individuals with stable claims.
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    • 1.The parties in the original position do not know which era the citizens they represent live in.
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    • 2.When one does not know which generation one belongs to, it is rational to choose a principle fair to all generations.
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