 Rawls does not talk about moral intuitions as the starting material for the method of reflective equilibrium; instead he talks about considered moral judgments. Some commentators think the whole issue of the relation between the method of reflective equilibrium and moral intuitions is resolved by noting that Rawls does not identify considered moral judgments with an appeal to moral intuitions. But this ignores the criticism that can be focused on considered moral judgments as well as on moral intuitions. Central to the method of reflective equilibrium in ethics and political philosophy is the claim that our considered moral judgments about particular cases carry weight, if only initial weight, in seeking justification. This claim is controversial. Some of the most vigorous criticism of it has come from utilitarians, and it is instructive to see why.