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

    Once contractualist reasoning treats unchosen disadvantage as a basis for legitimate insurance claims, the distinction between disability and other natural misfortune becomes arbitrary.

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    Contractualist reasoning(as used in ethics)
    An ethical approach based on the idea that morality comes from an agreement or contract people would accept as fair—essentially, rules everyone could reasonably agree to.
    Legitimate insurance claims(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    Requests for financial help or compensation that are justified and reasonable to make under fair rules.
    Natural misfortune(as used in ethics)
    Bad events that happen due to nature or chance rather than human actions—like a storm, illness, or accident.
    Unchosen disadvantage(in ethics and social justice)
    A difficult situation or hardship that someone didn't create through their own decisions—something that just happened to them by chance or circumstance.
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    (Debate over Locke's watch passage and natural kind classification)
    Does not mean 'random' or that all qualities are equally adequate as differentia; refers instead to the availability of multiple similarly good and natural grounds for classification.
    contractualism
    A moral theory presented as a genuine alternative to both consequentialism and Kantian ethics, one that coheres with distinctively non-utilitarian intuitions in certain key cases
    disability(Stein's utilitarian framework for health care allocation)
    Conceptually related to ill-health or functional decrement (impairment); on the utilitarian view, also entails a proportionate reduction in welfare.

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