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    It is not the case that A capability that cannot be exercised without catastrophic cost to the agent is functionally equivalent to its absence, making the capability/functioning distinction a liberal idealization.

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    • 1.Costly capabilities remain distinct from absent ones: the agent retains choice and control over whether to bear the cost, unlike genuine inability.
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    • 2.Catastrophic cost is subjective and variable. A principle that collapses capability based on cost creates unstable foundations for rights and responsibility.
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    • 3.This conflation obscures important differences: a person choosing to sacrifice for their values exercised agency differently than someone without the option.
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    • 1.Practical agency requires the realistic ability to act. A right to speak that requires self-destruction is indistinguishable from censorship in lived experience.
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    • 2.Formal capabilities divorced from actual exercise are merely theoretical. Functionality is what matters for meaningful freedom, not abstract possibility.
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    • 3.Liberal theory conflates having an option with having a viable option. Claiming someone 'can' choose when all choices destroy them masks actual powerlessness.
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