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    It is not the case that Two persons with identical resources but different physical capacities achieve radically unequal substantive freedoms.

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    • 1.Resources are precisely what enable compensation for physical differences. Identical resources mean both can purchase adaptive technologies, assistance, and alternative pathways.
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    • 2.Physical capacity alone doesn't determine substantive freedom—motivation, knowledge, and opportunity matter equally. Two healthy people with identical resources can achieve radically unequal outcomes.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'different freedoms' with 'unequal substantive freedoms.' Different physical capacities create different valuable options, not necessarily fewer total freedoms.
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    • 1.Substantive freedom requires actual capacity to convert resources into functioning. A wheelchair user and able-bodied person with equal money face different conversion rates.
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    • 2.Physical capacity directly determines which valuable activities are achievable. Someone with severe arthritis cannot realize the freedom to play piano despite owning one.
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    • 3.Equal resources cannot compensate for all capability gaps. No amount of money lets someone born deaf access unaided hearing or eliminates associated opportunity costs.
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