Political philosophers often employ thought experiments in developing their normative accounts of justice. Most famously within modern political philosophy, Rawls (1971) develops his theory of justice by reflecting on the principles of justice to which people would consent if they made their choices behind a “veil of ignorance” that blinded them to their likely standing in a future society. Almost as famously, Nozick (1974) advances his competing, libertarian conception of justice with a hypothetical about Wilt Chamberlain’s entitlement to the fruits of his labor obtained through free exchange. Ackerman (1980) imagines a society in which a “perfect technology of justice” removes all practical impediments to achieving social justice-all for the express purpose of providing “a clean-cut thought experiment to test the claim that liberalism is bankrupt” (p. 21). Several other examples of prominent thought experiments in modern political philosophy could be given, for “[r]ecent liberal theory has been distinctive for its thought experiments” (Fishkin, 1992, p. 50).