 The contractualist has several possible replies. They could simply deny the utilitarian’s intuition. Perhaps it is wrong to impose a greater burden on a single person, even to save many others from a slightly worse burden. Contractualists who want to capture the utilitarian’s intuition might argue that, just as complaints are not always tied to well-being, the strength of an individual’s complaint need not be proportional to the loss of well-being. Perhaps a principle that allows me to suffer for a century minus a day is just as objectionable to me as one that allows me to suffer for a century. Once the complaints are on a par, we can then appeal to our earlier tie-breaking method, and conclude that it is wrong to favour the one over the many. (A utilitarian will reply that in any context a day of agony is an enormous moral burden—it is no less bad if the person has already suffered for almost a century—so that the complaint of the individual in the first scenario has to be seen as significantly greater than that of any individual in the second scenario.)