 Contractualists agree that the Cautionary Policy is “the only morally defensible choice” (Kumar 2015, p. 269). However, they argue that contractualism can deliver this result, for two reasons. First, even if the covert policy is instrumentally superior, all moral agents have strong symbolic reasons for “not wanting it to be permissible for public officials to hide important information because they decide that members of the public are not competent to assess it and respond appropriately” (Kumar 2015, p. 270). Covert paternalism clearly fails to treat people as responsible adults, and therefore everyone has reason to reject it. Second, Contractualists will appeal to the need to evaluate principles against generic standpoints, rather than against the eccentric preferences of particular individuals.“Our assessment cannot be based on the particular aims, preferences, and other characteristics of specific individuals. We must rely instead on commonly available information about what people have reason to want … about generic reasons.” (Scanlon 1998, p. 203) What matters is not what Curious wants, but what a representative person in her situation would have reason to want. And people in general have reason to want control over their exposure to risk. Generic reasons also play a key role in contractualist accounts of risk (section 11) and our obligations to future people (section 13).