/lit/ - Literature

>wants to become an anglican priest
>goes to ww2
>"oh nooo how could the nazis be so ebil god is dead :(("
>becomes an academic
>"if God is dead I shall fix the world with my groundbreaking theory of justice!"
>WE SHOULD MAXIMIZE THE BENEFIT FOR THE WORST CASE POSSIBLE NOT FOR THE AVERAGE CASE!
>that's it
>lefties go nuts
>best philosopher of the century, hands down
>later lefties turn on him because he didn't talk about race and women
This is almost as baffling as Nietzsche's popularity. So tell me, what am I missing regarding this great hero of the socialists? I already know the method by which he got to that conclusion ("original position"), but, in practice, a method is as good as the outcome it produces, and the outcome was that simple social theory I already outlined.