 The challenge presented by Hobbes’ Foole in Leviathan (Hobbes 1651: chapter 15) nicely characterizes the core issue at stake in the Reconciliation Project. The Foole maintains that under certain circumstances one’s “most reasonable” course of action is to commit an injustice. Specifically, the Foole claims one should sometimes break a promise she has made as part of a covenant if the other parties to the covenant have already kept (or will be compelled to keep) their promises (Hobbes 1651: 15:5). This is because performing as a covenant requires can be costly and rationality plausibly requires that such costs should be avoided if one doesn’t stand to gain anything further by incurring them. This challenge is illustrated in the decision tree in  Figure 2  below.