Define the role "the veil of ignorance" plays in Rawls' theory. According to Rawls theory "the veil of ignorance" is an imaginative device for...

For Rawls, "the veil of ignorance" is the manner by which
decisions about resource allocation and political execution should be made.  It is a
tool to ensure that justice involves a sense of fairness.  The veil itself is a
concealment tool that prevents individuals from fully understanding where they would
fall in a social setting.  The term "ignorant" might be too harsh.  Individuals are not
fully clear on where they would fall because the veil precludes them from absolutely
knowing their placement.  In this light, individuals would choose to protect those on
the lowest rung because that could be where they would fall.  It is because of this that
the veil of ignorance allows for a more pure sense of decision making because it is the
mechanism that allows for individual and collective interests to
converge.