An agent who achieves a fair welfare level by disproportionately consuming a shared resource wrongs others by foreclosing their equivalent use of that resource, even if welfare metrics appear equal.

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Disproportionately(as used in justice and ethics): Out of balance or not matching in size or degree; much larger or smaller than what would be fair or reasonable.
Forecloses(as used in discussions of free will and constraint): Closes off or eliminates a possibility, making it no longer available or achievable.
Shared resource(as used in ethics and political philosophy): Something valuable (like clean water, public land, or common knowledge) that belongs to or is available for use by a group of people rather than one person.
Welfare metrics(as used in ethics and social policy): Measurements or ways of calculating how well off someone is, like income, health scores, or happiness surveys.
Wrongs(as used in ethics): Actions that harm or unfairly treat someone else, violating their rights or dignity.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics): The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
welfare(Critique of Stein's strict health-welfare correlation): A subjective notion of well-being that is affected by multiple domains, not health alone.

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