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    Challenges→Preferring non-disabled individual B over disabled individual A is acceptable when treatment to A would be a total waste of a scarce resource

    Using disability status as a tiebreaker for resource allocation treats the disabled person's life as inherently less worth sustaining, which violates the equal moral standing that grounds any legitimate allocation scheme.

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    Moral standing(as what should determine who deserves compensation or rights)
    The quality of having a legitimate claim or right to something based on ethical principles; being the kind of person who has a valid reason to demand something as fair or just.
    Resource allocation(One possible explanation for why attention doesn't always work well in certain situations.)
    How the brain distributes its limited energy and processing power to different tasks, like deciding whether to focus on mental math or listening to a friend.
    disability status as a tiebreaker(resource allocation ethics)
    Using someone's disability as the deciding factor when two people are equally in need—essentially choosing to help the non-disabled person instead when resources are limited.
    inherently(describing an essential property)
    Built-in or fundamental to something's nature; a quality that something has by its very essence.

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    legitimate allocation scheme(ethics and policy)
    A fair and justified system for distributing resources that people can accept as reasonable and justified.

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