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    If the goal is maximizing welfare rather than health, dis... — Carmelics
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    If the goal is maximizing welfare rather than health, disability may become irrelevant as a distributive criterion.

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    • 1.Preference satisfaction theories (Hare, Brandt) measure welfare by fulfilled desires, not biological function, making disability status independently irrelevant.
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    • 2.A disabled person with fully satisfied preferences registers equal or greater welfare than a non-disabled person with frustrated preferences.
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    • 3.Therefore, disability as a category drops out of welfare-maximizing calculus when preference satisfaction is the operative metric.
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    • 1.Objection 1 conflates welfare with opportunity-based goods, smuggling in non-welfarist criteria like talent development that are foreign to strict consequentialism.
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    • 2.Sen's capability approach, which grounds such opportunity arguments, is explicitly non-welfarist and cannot rescue a welfarist framework from the irrelevance of disability.
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    • 3.A consistent welfare maximizer must reject opportunity metrics as foundational, leaving disability without independent distributive weight.
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    • 1.Maximizing welfare requires accounting for all consequential welfare advances linked to health improvements, such as opportunity to develop talents, better job prospects, and a more stable family life.
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    • 2.These broader welfare benefits linked to health improvements may overwhelm the negative welfare impact of disability.
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    • 3.Therefore, disability need not be the decisive factor in welfare-maximizing health care allocation.
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    One of the most robust defenses of how the CEA approach deals with disability comes in the form of Michael Stein’s general defense of utilitarianism against forms of resource egalitarianism (Stein 2006). Stein argues that only utilitarianism, by relying on the greater benefit criterion of distributive justice, can handle our intuitions about disability when it comes to health care allocation. He acknowledges that disability is conceptually related to ill-health or functional decrement (impairmen
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