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    It is not the case that A theory of decisional capacity should be rejected if it fails to be inclusive enough.

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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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    • 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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