Editing Distributive justice (section)

==== The original position ====
{{Main|Original position}}
Rawls presents the concept of an ''original position'' as a hypothetical idea of how to establish "a fair procedure so that any principles agreed on will be just."<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Rawls|first=John|title=A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1999|page=118}}</ref> In his envisioning of the original position, it is created from a judgement made through negotiations between a group of people who will decide on what a just distribution of primary goods is (according to Rawls, the primary goods include freedoms, opportunities, and control over resources).<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Rawls|first=John|url=https://archive.org/details/theoryjusticerev00rawl|title=A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/theoryjusticerev00rawl/page/n76 54]–55|url-access=limited}}</ref> These people are assumed to be guided by self-interest, while also having a basic idea of morality and justice, and thus capable of understanding and evaluating a moral argument.<ref name=":3" /> Rawls then argues that procedural justice in the process of negotiation will be possible via a nullification of temptations for these people to exploit circumstances so as to favor their own position in society.<ref name=":2" />