Scanlon's contractualism, though person-affecting, permits pairwise comparison of claims that functionally approximates aggregation, undermining the strict separateness-based prohibition.

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Pairwise comparison(the method that Scanlon's theory uses to evaluate claims): Comparing two things side-by-side, one pair at a time, rather than looking at everything all together at once.
Person-affecting(describes a limitation of Scanlon's theory): A principle that only counts impacts on actual people as morally relevant—you can't do something bad 'for the greater good' if it harms specific individuals who could otherwise exist.
Scanlon: # Scanlon Tim Scanlon is an influential American philosopher known for developing a theory of ethics based on the idea that actions are right if they could be justified to others through principles everyone could reasonably accept. Rather than focusing on happiness or duty, his approach emphasizes what we can defend to each other as fair-minded people, making morality fundamentally about mutual respect and agreement. He's considered one of the most important moral philosophers of our time because his ideas have reshaped how philosophers think about fairness, responsibility, and what we owe to one another.
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