 Some disability scholars may worry that the use of a double-standard is fraught with elitism and condescension. But it has a stubborn appeal, insofar as objective accounts seem too demanding when applied to cognitively disabled people. Jeff McMahan concedes that it seems “deeply and perniciously inegalitarian” to place people with severe congential cognitive impairments in a separate comparison class from cognitively normal people for purposes of assessing their well-being (2001: 160). But he argues that it is even less plausible and attractive to view such individuals as suffering grave misfortune, however well they do with their limited potential.