 So, even if we should accept Foot’s assumption that  Most Reason to Desire  is the Compelling Idea, we should reject her assumption that it can never be right to prefer a worse outcome to a better outcome. After all, the outcome in which my less gifted child is saved is, other things being equal, worse than the one in which your more gifted child is saved (that is, it should, other things being equal, be dispreferred from a universal point of view), but I should, nevertheless, prefer it from my own point of view.