It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories. "Shades of Goodness" argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure and, more significantly, that this is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, for those theories.

Mean Mitt Waffleschnitz, the baddest bully to ever walk the halls of Lincoln Elementary, shocks and terrifies the entire school by announcing his candidacy for class president. Mitt certainly doesn't celebrate differences, but when he runs on a platform that promises to strictly enforce his own rigid culture of extreme conformity, will anyone be brave enough to stop him?