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    Favoring a non-disabled individual B over a disabled indi... — Carmelics
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    Favoring a non-disabled individual B over a disabled individual A is arbitrary and unfair when the quality-of-life gap between them is minimal

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    • 1.When the difference in quality of life between A and B after treatment is minimal, there is no substantial utilitarian justification for preferring B
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    • 2.Arbitrary distinctions in resource allocation are unfair
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    • 1.Resource allocation must consider aggregate welfare across populations, not just pairwise comparisons between individuals.
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    • 2.A policy permitting 'minimal gap' exceptions systematically undermines consistent, scalable rationing frameworks like QALYs.
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    • 3.Norman Daniels argues just health systems require fair procedures, not case-by-case deviation based on contested gap assessments.
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    • 1.Elizabeth Anderson's relational egalitarianism holds that equality concerns social standing, not equalizing welfare outcomes between individuals.
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    • 2.Preferring B over A based on projected quality-of-life gaps, however minimal, still treats disability as a welfare-relevant criterion rather than a morally irrelevant trait.
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    • 3.The claim assumes a cardinal, interpersonally comparable welfare scale that most anti-welfarist philosophers, including Sen and Nussbaum, reject as ethically inappropriate for allocation.
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    For cases (i) and (iii), primarily because of the use of QALY as a metric for benefit, the standard strategy for health resource allocation would favor B over A or C: because of their disabilities, ex post or ex ante, individuals A and C have worst health resource use outcomes than B. As with the life-saving cases, our intuitions seem to depend on how great the gap in quality of life is between A (or C) and B. Should A and C experience an extremely low quality of life after the treatment, while
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