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    It is not the case that Economic rationality, as Gauthier argues in 'Morals by Agreement,' includes the capacity to make and honor constrained maximization commitments.

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    • 1.True economic rationality requires maximizing one's own interests; commitments that sacrifice advantage are rationally incoherent.
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    • 2.Agents genuinely motivated to honor commitments face vulnerability to exploitation by those who defect—undercutting rational self-interest.
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    • 3.Constrained maximization merely describes contingent compliance, not a unified rational principle grounding morality itself.
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    • 1.Agents who can commit to fair cooperative schemes achieve better outcomes than pure self-interested maximizers in repeated interactions.
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    • 2.The ability to constrain immediate maximization reveals sophisticated rationality, not its absence, by solving coordination problems.
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    • 3.Moral agreement requires participants capable of honoring commitments; this capacity is therefore rationally necessary, not optional.
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