Individual rights in the liberal tradition (Dworkin, Rawls) are lexically prior to preference-satisfaction and thus cannot coherently participate in the trade-offs Sen's framework requires.
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Rawls(as the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
Sen's framework(as a reference to a major thinker's theory)
An approach to justice and well-being developed by economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, who argued that what matters is expanding people's capabilities (their real opportunities to do and be what they value), and that sometimes we need to weigh different concerns against each other.
Trade-offs(as used in decision-making)
Situations where you have to accept something bad or give up something good in order to achieve something else you want.
individual rights(Confucian critique of rights discourse)