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    It is not the case that The reason 'because it is wrong' cannot be fed into the contractualist apparatus.

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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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    • 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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