The possibility of flourishing with a single disability may depend not on compensation but on saturation — that the remaining senses and abilities are more than adequate for full flourishing.
saturation(Offered as an alternative to the compensation model for explaining how a person with a disability can live as well as a person without that disability.)
The condition in which the senses and abilities a person retains are more than adequate to allow that person to live as fully and richly as possible, such that flourishing does not depend on compensating for an absent ability.
Some might dispute McMahan’s claim that disabilities cannot be neutral in combination, but our focus here is his claim that neutrality for individual disabilities implies neutrality in combination. In support of this claim, he argues the effects of disabilities on well-being “are largely additive”, because with each further disability, it becomes harder to compensate for other disabilities. This argument assumes that the possibility of living as well without as with any given ability depends on