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    Compensating for genetic disadvantage presupposes a basel... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Educational institutions must provide compensatory support for students with genetic disadvantages, not only those from disadvantaged family backgrounds.

    Compensating for genetic disadvantage presupposes a baseline of normal functioning that is itself philosophically contested and risks medicalizing ordinary human variation.

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    • 1.Medical categories like 'disease' and 'disorder' lack universal definitions across cultures and historical periods, revealing their contingency.
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    • 2.Pathologizing variation (e.g., introversion, neurodiversity) expands medical authority over normal human diversity and behavior.
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    • 3.Compensation policies require specifying who counts as 'disadvantaged,' but any threshold is arbitrary and excludes borderline cases unfairly.
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    • 1.Some genetic conditions (cystic fibrosis, sickle cell) cause objectively measurable functional impairment regardless of cultural context or interpretation.
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    • 2.Refusing compensation based on baseline ambiguity leaves those with severe disadvantages unhelped—the perfect shouldn't be enemy of the good.
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    • 3.All policy requires workable definitions; contestation about boundaries doesn't eliminate the real distinction between typical and atypical functioning.
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