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It is also important to note that this initial report is not (yet) about value judgment. It is not claimed that more inclusive systems are better. In order to be able potentially to make a normative value judgment and elaborate any common standards in this area one must first clarify facts: different degrees of inclusiveness/exclusiveness of different systems. The following contextual analysis of different types of thresholds is thus the initial step towards this first goal.