 But this procedure doesn’t guarantee that the first premise in the assimilation argument is true. For it may not always be possible to employ the Footian Procedure. It won’t be possible if the structural features of the target non-consequentialist theory’s morally-better relation are incompatible with those of act-consequentialism’s ranking of outcomes (see Brown 2011). To illustrate, suppose that act-consequentialism’s ranking of outcomes must be transitive, whereas the target non-consequentialist theory’s morally-better relation is intransitive. For suppose that the target non-consequentialist theory holds: