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    It is not the case that A functioning is not equivalent to a capability, because a person may possess a capability without exercising it

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    • 1.For beings whose agency is constitutively social, the distinction between capability and functioning collapses when social conditions make non-exercise impossible to distinguish from incapacity.
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    • 2.Marx's analysis of alienated labor shows that workers 'possess' formal capabilities (to quit, to negotiate) that are practically indistinguishable from unfreedom due to structural coercion.
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    • 3.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.Aristotle's account of hexis (stable disposition) entails that a capability not regularly exercised degrades and ceases to be a genuine capability, collapsing the distinction over time.
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    • 2.If capabilities require ongoing cultivation and practice to remain real options—as virtue ethics holds—then persistent non-exercise transforms a capability into a merely nominal one.
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    • 1.Functionings are capabilities that have been achieved, whether voluntarily or by chance
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    • 2.A person may have the real freedom to vote but choose not to do so
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    • 3.A person who chooses not to vote has the capability of voting but not the functioning of voting
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