Rawls' Veil of Ignorance: how would you want a problem solved if you were an unborn soul about to be born into the world to random parents?
My Lens of Knowledge: how would you want a problem solved if you were a ghost or vampire?
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Both are "dead" officially and witness the world through the perspective of complete knowledge of a human life already lived. Ghosts as pure witnesses and vampires as very narrow actors.
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I used the metaphor in a 2013 post I forgot I wrote until a new reader resurfaced it for me recently.
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Vampires have a lot longer time horizons to work problems from the mythos. Castlevania anime on Netflix does a great job of demonstrating deep time and how that builds the character of Dracula.
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Want a problem solved to make being a revenant better when they return, or better for the common good, or better technically because they’ve seen the type of problem before and know what works and doesn’t ?
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