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    Defining waste by reference to a non-disabled norm system... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Preferring non-disabled individual B over disabled individual A is acceptable when treatment to A would be a total waste of a scarce resource

    Defining waste by reference to a non-disabled norm systematically disadvantages disabled persons by embedding their disadvantage into the very metric used to evaluate their claims.

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    Metric(in mathematical analysis)
    A specific way of measuring distance or defining what 'closeness' means in a mathematical space.
    Non-disabled norm(as used in disability ethics and social policy)
    A standard or expectation for how people should function that is based on the abilities of people without disabilities, often used as the default measure of 'normal.'
    embedding(A stronger form of homomorphism between many-sorted structures.)
    A homomorphism between structures in which all defining functions are injective and the relation-preservation condition holds in both directions.
    systematically disadvantages(describes the effect of merit-based systems)
    Regularly and consistently puts certain people at a disadvantage as a built-in feature of how something works, not by accident.

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