  The considerations advanced in the previous paragraph could be given a stronger or a weaker interpretation. On the stronger reading, the principles that determine morally acceptable state actions have no implications for what individuals should do in private life. The principles for state action might in principle be entirely separate and distinct from the principles that determine morally acceptable individual conduct. On the weaker reading, the principles that regulate state action might have implications for what individuals should do in their private as well as public roles and might partially determine the standards regulating individual conduct. Nonetheless individuals generally should have greater permission to deviate from strict impartiality in deciding how to act when their actions could help others than states should have.