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    Challenges→A theory of decisional capacity should be rejected if it fails to be inclusive enough.

    Social norms about individual autonomy have historically excluded women, minorities, and the colonized — showing they are unreliable validators of capacity theories.

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    • 1.Historical exclusion of women from property rights and legal personhood shows autonomy norms reflected power, not objective capacity.
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    • 2.Colonial frameworks denied self-determination to colonized peoples deemed 'not ready for autonomy,' revealing circular reasoning in capacity judgments.
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    • 3.Once excluded groups gained autonomy rights, they demonstrated equal decision-making capacity, suggesting earlier exclusions were normative, not factual.
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    • 1.Historical injustice in applying norms doesn't prove the norms themselves are unreliable—only that implementation was biased and selective.
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    • 2.Capacity theories can be distinguished from autonomy norms; a norm's social history doesn't necessarily invalidate underlying cognitive benchmarks.
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    • 3.Showing past exclusions were unjust requires separate standards for evaluation; without them, we cannot distinguish bias from legitimate disagreement.
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