{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If I was born in some other country I would be waving some other flag. \u2013 Michael Lipsey", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/163350746628/", "html": "

nuclearspaceheater:

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kontextmaschine:

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kontextmaschine:

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stoicmike:

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If I was born in some other country I would be waving some other flag. \u2013 Michael Lipsey

\n\nI\u2019m Prepared To Give My Life For This Or Any Country\n
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Is there a name for the unstated belief that everyone exists prior to their birth in some universal, possibly atemporal pool of souls that is drawn from at random as people are born, that is implied by, among other things, any use of the work \u201cluck\u201d to describe the circumstance\u2019s of one\u2019s parentage?

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\n\nThe \u201cVeil of Ignorance\u201d?
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No, that\u2019s a thot experiment about explicitly imaginary circumstances.

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Which is totally distinct from religio-mystical narratives that underlie ethical worldviews

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