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    Contractarianism can provide dignified care for disabled ... — Carmelics
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    Contractarianism can provide dignified care for disabled persons who cannot be rehabilitated through a mutually advantageous social insurance scheme.

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    • 1.A social insurance scheme offering dignified care is mutually advantageous if all participants face risk of needing such care.
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    • 2.Even currently healthy contractors face some probability of disability and thus benefit from insurance coverage.
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    • 1.Rational contractors choose insurance terms based on expected utility, systematically undervaluing low-probability, high-cost disabilities.
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    • 2.Severely disabled persons requiring lifelong intensive care represent costs that exceed what self-interested contractors would rationally insure against.
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    • 3.A scheme grounded in mutual advantage therefore structurally excludes those whose care needs are most profound, not least.
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    • 1.Nussbaum argues that contractarianism's mutual advantage premise presupposes rough equality of capacity among contractors, excluding those with severe cognitive disabilities from the original agreement.
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    • 2.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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    Disability rights activists, however, would still seem to have a serious complaint to lodge against normative contractarianism, since it is surely the case that there are persons who cannot reciprocate benefits to others. Such persons would be, on the normative contractarian view, beyond the scope of the rules of justice. Recent literature on disability argues that, to the contrary, contractarianism can be inclusive of the disabled. For example, it may be argued that in fact most disabled person
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