In order to understand Rawls' justifications for choosing the Difference Principle in the Original Position and to establish his relative success we must first have a general understanding of what the Original Position and the Difference Principle comprise of, as well as the conditions he applies. In this section I will be providing a basic outline of the features of the Original position and the Difference Principle and the pertinent constraints he employs for his …
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…and Classic Utilitarianism, but he has not been successful in dismissing constrained maximisation of utility in his comparisons. There is also a high degree of irrationality in choosing the maximin rule as a decision tool, which provides a bulk of his argument. To a degree Rawls has been successful in showing that the Difference Principle is a plausible choice in the Original Position, but he has not convinced me that it would be chosen outright.