 Securitism employs a top-down approach by using normative principles to directly assess the deontic status of maximal act-sets and then extending the same deontic status to non-maximal act-sets that are contained in the relevant maximal act-set (Portmore 2011: 179). This approach reaps the benefits of Goldman’s  (G+)  of avoiding jointly unfulfillable obligations and of denying that any synchronic counterfactuals even partly determine an agent’s obligations.