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    Richer informational bases for justice require objective ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The social choice framework should be generalized to permit consideration of information about individual utility functions, not only ordinal preferences.

    Richer informational bases for justice require objective metrics of functioning and capability, not subjective utility data that perpetuates preference distortion.

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    • 1.Adaptive preferences under oppression make subjective satisfaction unreliable: marginalized groups report high utility despite objective deprivation.
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    • 2.Objective capability metrics (health, literacy, mobility) enable cross-cultural comparison; subjective utilities vary by cultural framing.
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    • 3.Justice should guarantee real freedoms to achieve valued functionings, not merely satisfy whatever preferences people have internalized.
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    • 1.Objective metrics embed contested value judgments about which capabilities matter; they're not preference-neutral but culturally specific.
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    • 2.Individuals are epistemically privileged about their own well-being; ignoring subjective reports treats people as passive objects, not agents.
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    • 3.Hybrid approaches combining objective baselines with subjective satisfaction better respect both real freedoms and individual autonomy than either alone.
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