 “The contractualist claim is that all persons stand in a particular kind of relationship to one another, the ideal form of which realizes a distinct value, that of mutual recognition.” (Kumar 2015, p. 258) This idea sounds odd if we imagine a moral relationship that is analogous to actual relationships such as a particular friendship. Contractualists instead treat the moral relationship as “a normative ideal, like a normative ideal of friendship that specifies attitudes and expectations that we should have regarding one another. … morality requires that we hold certain attitudes toward one another simply in virtue of the fact that we stand in the relation of ‘fellow rational beings’.” (Scanlon 2008, pp. 139–40) There are some basic attitudes that we expect even from total strangers,and we are entitled to blame them if their behaviour demonstrates a lack of those attitudes.