 Proponents of the convergence argument must somehow explain away these apparent counter-examples. Following Parfit, they will first will divide such cases into two classes. In some cases, the optimific rule consequentialist principles instruct us to favour the individual. Consider Scanlon’s own example where we must choose between electrifying an innocent person and disrupting millions of people’s enjoyment of a televised sporting event (Scanlon 1998, p. 235). Here, many rule consequentialists will argue that the optimific rules do instruct us to save the innocent person. If so, the convergence between rule consequentialism and contractualism is straightforward. In its contest with rule consequentialism, contractualism cannot draw its intuitive appeal from such cases.