 The two challenges for ex ante contractualists are (a) to offer a principled justification for rejecting Jeb’s complaint; and (b) to ensure that that justification does not collapse into utilitarianism. One possibility is to argue that, like Curious, Jeb is too eccentric for contractualist purposes. We should be asking what people in general have reason to reject, rather than examining the strange predilections of singular individuals. However, unlike Curious’s counter-suggestible risk-seeking, Jeb’s rejection of modern life is considered and (prima facie) reasonable. If contractualism rejects Jeb’s considered worldview as “unreasonable”, then he might object that contractualism thereby fails to treat him with the respect due to a rational agent.