 Derrick Darby and Nyla Branscombe, in their work on responsibility for overcoming social, political, and economic inequality, choose to look, not to the identities of democratic citizens, but to the kinds of social, political, and economic institutions that democratic citizens would choose within a Rawlsian social contract, as a basis for ascribing remedial responsibility. In doing so, they manage not only to bring both shared interests and rational choice together, but, in doing so, to make clear what is unique about forward looking responsibility.