whether Kantian or natural law, are mistaken, and that the concrete situation in all its complexity should never be treated abstractly and legalistically. However, he rejected Fletcher’s assumption—shared by many others—that “the central ethical concept” is the individual’s “decision” (VV 12). The modern idea of the self is at work in such an assumption, with its notions of responsibility and freedom in self-construction, and its “stress on man as the decision maker” (CCL 6–7).7 Fletcher simply perpetuates