Because people are motivated to justify their actions to others, they still need to be respectful of others' needs and goals, and they are expected to weigh their own interests and other people's interests reasonably.

Finally, contractualism and utilitarianism are different in their scope. While Scanlon argues that contractualism offers a broader scope than utilitarianism because moral motivation goes beyond wellbeing and includes other factors into the reasoning, Critiques of contractualism point out how contractualism can be narrower