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    Care for persons who cannot participate as rational contr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Contractarianism can provide dignified care for disabled persons who cannot be rehabilitated through a mutually advantageous social insurance scheme.

    Care for persons who cannot participate as rational contractors requires duties of justice grounded in dignity, not reciprocity—a foundation contractarianism cannot supply.

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    • 1.Infants, dementia patients, and the severely disabled cannot enter contracts, yet deserve moral protection equal to rational agents.
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    • 2.Dignity is an intrinsic property of persons qua human beings, not earned through rational capacity or reciprocal exchange ability.
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    • 3.Contractarian duties collapse when one party cannot reciprocate, leaving vulnerable dependents morally unprotected by the theory.
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    • 1.Contractarians can ground duties to non-rational persons via hypothetical consent: rational agents would contract to protect their vulnerable future/past selves.
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    • 2.Dignity-based frameworks face equal problems explaining why dignity generates specific duties to *care for* persons rather than merely respecting their autonomy.
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    • 3.Extended contractarian theories (Rawls, Scanlon) successfully incorporate protections for dependents without abandoning reciprocity as foundational.
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