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    A theory of decisional capacity should be rejected if it fails to be inclusive enough.

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    • 1.Societal norms morally commit us to minimal restraints on individual choice.
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    • 2.A theory of decisional capacity that excludes too many ordinary adults as lacking capacity conflicts with those norms.
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    • 3.Conflict with established societal norms of individual autonomy is sufficient grounds for rejecting an account of decisional capacity.
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    • 1.Theories should be evaluated primarily by their capacity to track the normatively relevant truth, not by their conformity to prevailing social norms.
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    • 2.Social norms about individual autonomy have historically excluded women, minorities, and the colonized — showing they are unreliable validators of capacity theories.
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    • 3.A theory that is maximally inclusive may fail to protect genuinely vulnerable persons from exploitation, producing greater harm than selective exclusion.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical autonomy theory entails that mere first-order preferences are insufficient for genuine self-governance, implying capacity requires reflective endorsement.
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    • 2.If decisional capacity requires higher-order volitional competence, then inclusiveness toward persons lacking such competence conflates bare preference-expression with authentic autonomous choice.
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    The inclusiveness constraint derives entirely from the needs of practice. No matter what theory of decisional capacity we develop, it must turn out that most ordinary adults count as having capacity most of the time (Buchanan & Brock 1989: 21; Appelbaum 1998). In other words, as a society we are morally committed to imposing minimal restraints on individual choice. Most people are free to make most choices in their lives for themselves, even including self-harming choices. It would therefore
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