 Contractualist blame thus only makes sense within a relationship, such as friendship or family relationships. Impairment must be judged against the standard of what is appropriate within that relationship. This raises an obvious problem. What relationship could possibly ground judgements of blameworthiness and reactions of blame in the general moral case? Suppose a stranger steals my bag as I walk down the street. Intuitively, I can blame her. But what is my relationship to her? “Do we have a relationship with every total stranger whom it makes sense to blame?” (Scanlon 2008, p. 138) Scanlon replies that we do.