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    A contractualist procedure that cannot adjudicate between... — Carmelics
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    Supports→When we cannot avoid placing a severe burden on at least one person, contractualism's ideal of choosing a scenario acceptable to each person from their personal point of view is not practical.

    A contractualist procedure that cannot adjudicate between universally burden-imposing options produces indeterminacy, not guidance, exposing a structural limitation in the framework's action-guiding capacity.

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    Key Terms

    Action-guiding capacity(as used in ethics)
    The ability of a theory or framework to actually tell you what you should do in real situations, rather than just being abstract.
    Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement)
    To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
    Contractualist procedure(as the method Scanlon uses)
    The process of testing whether an action is morally acceptable by asking whether the principles behind it could be reasonably agreed to by everyone affected.
    Structural limitation(as used in philosophy)
    A weakness or problem that's built into the very foundation of how something works, not just a minor flaw.
    Universally burden-imposing options

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    (as used in ethics)
    Choices or rules where everyone has to give something up or accept some cost or disadvantage.
    contractualism
    A moral theory presented as a genuine alternative to both consequentialism and Kantian ethics, one that coheres with distinctively non-utilitarian intuitions in certain key cases
    indeterminacy(Decision-making under uncertainty in political and legal contexts)
    Uncertainty or lack of definite knowledge afflicting one or more conditions of a decision procedure, making it impossible to fully specify choices and their outcomes

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