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It is not the case that Most disabled persons and all caregivers would be included in the contractarian bargaining group for strategic reasons.
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Gauthier's contractarianism explicitly requires that parties be 'able to contribute to and benefit from' cooperation as a condition of inclusion.
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Strategic inclusion of non-contributors contradicts the foundational logic of mutual advantage, making it incoherent rather than generous.
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If inclusion is justified by caregiver productivity rather than the disabled person's own standing, the disabled person remains instrumentally excluded as a right-bearing subject.
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Hobbes's bargaining framework grants inclusion only to those capable of posing a credible threat or offering irreplaceable advantage in the state of nature.
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Severely cognitively disabled persons who cannot threaten, reciprocate, or be accommodated into productivity fail this threshold on purely internal contractarian grounds.
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Cooperation is mutually advantageous, so including more contributors generates gains for all.
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Many disabled people are already capable of contributing or could contribute with accommodation or rehabilitation.
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Caregivers provide valuable cooperative contributions to society.
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