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    Supports→If the goal is maximizing welfare rather than health, disability may become irrelevant as a distributive criterion.

    Preference satisfaction theories (Hare, Brandt) measure welfare by fulfilled desires, not biological function, making disability status independently irrelevant.

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    • 1.Welfare should track what agents actually value, not objective biological states they may reject or reinterpret.
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    • 2.A disabled person with fulfilled preferences experiences genuine wellbeing regardless of functional capacity.
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    • 3.Tying welfare to biological function risks paternalistically dismissing disabled people's own assessments of their lives.
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    • 1.Preferences themselves are shaped by adaptation; accepting reduced circumstances doesn't prove satisfaction equals genuine welfare.
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    • 2.Some disabilities systematically limit which preferences are even formable, making preference-satisfaction an incomplete metric.
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    • 3.Ignoring disability-related barriers treats preference gaps as irrelevant when they reflect constrained choice, not authentic preference.
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