 Here, whatever strategy the other party follows, one always does at least as well and sometimes better by following CM as opposed to SM. That is, CM is a weakly dominant strategy for both Claudia and Laura, and (CM, CM) is the unique Pareto-optimal Nash equilibrium. Gauthier argues that there are a wide variety of social dilemmas where constrained maximizers fare at least as well as straightforward maximizers, and can often fare strictly better, so long as agents’ dispositions towards constrained or straightforward maximization are sufficiently clear to each other. Accordingly, Gauthier concludes that agents should adopt the constrained maximization principle, and that, when they do, compliance with the requirements of morality coincides with rational choice.