 Portmore’s securitism—and by extension other views that hold fixed facts that are not presently up to the agent in some sense—has been criticized on the grounds that it does not generate an obligation to do the best one can in the sense at issue in Ability 1, and thus securitism sometimes requires agents to perform terrible and vicious acts, and it allows one to avoid incurring an obligation in light of vicious or immoral dispositions (Timmerman 2015; Vessel 2016).