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    If 'normal function' lacks objective grounding, then 'no ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Efforts to improve traits that are at no diagnosable risk of deterioration are enhancements and thus medically suspect

    If 'normal function' lacks objective grounding, then 'no diagnosable risk of deterioration' cannot reliably demarcate medical from non-medical interventions.

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    • 1.Medical/non-medical distinction requires stable criteria; if 'normal function' varies by culture, era, and individual preference, no objective baseline exists.
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    • 2.Risk of deterioration alone cannot distinguish cosmetic surgery from disease treatment without first defining what counts as 'normal' functioning.
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    • 3.Without objective grounding, 'normal function' becomes whatever society currently values, making the medical boundary arbitrary and manipulable.
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    • 1.Objective grounding isn't required for reliable demarcation; intersubjective consensus among medical professionals provides practical, functional boundaries.
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    • 2.Risk of deterioration can work independently: symptoms causing suffering or dysfunction demarcate medicine whether or not 'normal' has metaphysical grounding.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical objectivity with epistemic reliability; we can reliably distinguish medical from non-medical without objective foundations.
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