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    Challenges→The contractualist justification for the equal-premium insurance scheme risks collapsing into egalitarianism.

    If the argument from reasonable rejectability justifies insurance against disability, a parallel argument could justify insurance against any form of bad luck.

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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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