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    Preferring B over A based on projected quality-of-life ga... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Favoring a non-disabled individual B over a disabled individual A is arbitrary and unfair when the quality-of-life gap between them is minimal

    Preferring B over A based on projected quality-of-life gaps, however minimal, still treats disability as a welfare-relevant criterion rather than a morally irrelevant trait.

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    • 1.Morally irrelevant traits should never factor into decisions, even marginally. Using disability as a tiebreaker violates this principle.
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    • 2.Accepting minimal disability-based preferences creates a slope toward stronger eugenic reasoning without principled stopping point.
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    • 3.Quality-of-life projections embed societal biases about disability rather than measuring objective welfare differences.
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    • 1.All reproductive choices involve welfare criteria; disability's genuine health impacts make it relevantly different from race or sex.
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    • 2.Distinguishing between disability itself and social accommodation allows preference for lower-impact conditions without endorsing discrimination.
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    • 3.Treating something as morally irrelevant requires denying measurable differences; some disabilities do affect welfare independent of stigma.
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