 Finneron-Burns offers an alternative account of how Scanlon’s contractualism can be applied to solve the nonidentity problem. That account avoids phrasing the debate in terms of types or standpoints that need not be tied to any particular individual and instead argues that we can think about future people – people who will in fact one day exist – in the same terms we think about existing people (Finneron-Burns 2016, 1151–1153; 1160–1162). At the same time, on this view “possible people are not included in the scope of those to whom we owe justification” (Finneron-Burns 2016, 1163). The view, accordingly, will face the same hurdles as will any other view that claims that existing and future people have a special moral status that the merely possible lack. See part 4 below. 