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    It is not the case that Contractarianism can provide dignified care for disabled persons who cannot be rehabilitated through a mutually advantageous social insurance scheme.

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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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    • 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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