Ableist social attitudes and resource scarcity are diffuse social conditions, not targeted coercions, and conflating them with rights violations dilutes the normative force of autonomy claims.

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Ableist(describes attitudes in society): Showing prejudice or discrimination against people with disabilities, or assuming that non-disabled people are the standard that everyone should meet.
Autonomy claims(the philosophical principle being discussed): Arguments that people have the right to make their own choices and control their own lives.
Conflating: Conflating means mixing together or treating two different things as if they were the same thing, when they're actually distinct. It's a logical error where someone blurs important differences between concepts, ideas, or situations to make an argument seem stronger than it is. For example, conflating "being critical of a policy" with "being disloyal to your country" wrongly equates two separate things.
Diffuse social conditions(contrasted with targeted coercions): Wide-spread problems in society that aren't created by any single person or group, but rather spread throughout how communities are organized.
Rights violations(as used in ethics and political philosophy): Actions that wrongfully infringe on someone's basic entitlements or freedoms (like their right to safety or property).
Targeted coercions(contrasted with diffuse social conditions): Specific actions where someone deliberately forces another person to do something against their will.
normative force(Used to describe what Korsgaard's account aims to explain): The property in virtue of which an agent's reasons are binding on the agent.

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