Chapter ǴǺ: Rights, Contract, and Utility in Policy Espousal ȄȀȀĻis process is poles apart from dictatorship and from appeals to infal-
lible insight. In this process, we can communicate better and guard better
against misunderstandings if we employ straightforward language.
Conceivably the rights doctrine and contractarianism are not the only
alternatives to the approach to policy espousal that I recommend. If
so, those other alternatives deserve further investigation and discussion.
Meanwhile, I submit, a rules-utilitarianism or indirect utilitarianism—in
other words, a good-society/comparative-institutions approach—turns
out to be the only one that stands up under critical inspection.
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