 Although Asch and others are certainly not attacking a straw person position, the response might be that there is an empirical basis for the claim that disability adversely affects the capacity to benefit from a health resource, namely the evidence that people with disabilities tend to enjoy less quality of life improvement from these resources than those without disabilities. The strength of this rejoinder, however, depends very much on what is meant by “quality of life”. If understood as a subjective assessment or evaluation of one’s life—now more often called “subjective well-being” (Kahneman, Diener &amp; Schwarz 1999)—then there is good empirical evidence that disability does not negatively affect capacity to benefit. People with disabilities tend to be happier, and assess their lives to be of considerably higher value than would be objectively assumed—a phenomenon called the “disability paradox” (Albrecht &amp; Devlieger 1999). 