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    The reason 'because it is wrong' cannot be fed into the contractualist apparatus.

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    • 1.The contractualist apparatus operates on things that happen to individuals.
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    • 2.'Because it is wrong' is not something that happens to individuals.
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    • 1.Contractualist reasoning can incorporate agent-relative reasons, including the wrongness of an act as a reason individuals can reasonably reject.
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    • 2.Scanlon's account in 'What We Owe to Each Other' explicitly allows that the wrongness of treating persons as mere means generates complaints individuals can advance in the contractualist procedure.
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    • 3.Therefore, wrongness-facts can function as grounds for reasonable rejection, entering the contractualist apparatus as reasons bearing on individuals' standing complaints.
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    • 1.Parfit's 'Triple Theory' argument demonstrates that contractualism, consequentialism, and Kantian ethics converge, suggesting wrongness-facts are not external to but partly constitutive of contractualist reasoning.
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    • 2.If wrongness is partly explained by what principles individuals could not reasonably reject, then feeding wrongness back into contractualist deliberation is not circular but reflects the reflexive structure of moral justification Rawls recognized in reflective equilibrium.
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    The Contractualist answer appeals to the conceptual link between wrongness and justification. Whether an act is wrong depends, not only on its direct impact on individuals, but also on whether a principle permitting it can be justified to all concerned. ‘Because it is wrong’ is not the kind of reason that can be fed into the contractualist apparatus, since it is not something that happens to individuals. Instead, wrongness is something that is constructed out of individuals’ reasons using that v
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