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    It is not the case that The supporting argument conflates a contingent psychological barrier (feeling superior) with a necessary incapacity, committing a modal fallacy.

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    • 1.Deep psychological barriers may function *as* incapacities if they're systematically embedded in cognition, blurring the contingent/necessary distinction.
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    • 2.Dismissing feeling-based obstacles as mere 'contingent' overlooks how subjective experience constitutes real functional limitations in decision-making.
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    • 3.The argument assumes psychological barriers are easily distinguishable from incapacities, but chronic patterns may constitute structural constraints.
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    • 1.Psychological barriers like superiority feelings are contingent on cultural conditioning and can be overcome through education and perspective-shift.
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    • 2.Conflating contingent obstacles with necessary logical impossibilities commits a modal fallacy by treating what's difficult as what's impossible.
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    • 3.Historical examples show groups once deemed incapable later demonstrated ability, suggesting barriers were psychological, not metaphysical.
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