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    Supports→Segmented choice in contractualist models of agreement can produce outcomes that are not rationalizable to the contracting parties

    Scanlon's contractualism requires that no one could reasonably reject the final principle, but segmented choice can produce principles no party would have endorsed had they foreseen the terminal outcome.

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    Key Terms

    Endorsed(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
    Genuinely approved of or committed to by the person themselves, rather than something they're forced into or pretend to believe.
    Scanlon's contractualism(Scanlon, 1982, 110)
    A moral theory relying upon morally motivated persons' agreement on a system of rules for the regulation of behavior that no one could reasonably reject.
    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
    reasonably reject(as used in ethics)
    Has good, rational grounds to object to or refuse to accept something as justified or fair.
    segmented choice(as used in decision theory)

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    Making decisions in separate stages or parts without seeing the full picture of what the final result will be.
    terminal outcome(as used in decision theory)
    The final result or end state that happens after all the choices and steps are completed.

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