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    A being who has systematically degraded their own rationa... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as persons with humanity.

    A being who has systematically degraded their own rational and social capacities through vice has thereby altered the morally relevant features that ground claims to respect.

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    • 1.Respect tracks morally relevant capacities; rational and social capacities are central to human dignity and moral status.
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    • 2.Systematic vice causally degrades these capacities; addiction, cruelty, and dishonesty demonstrably impair judgment and social functioning.
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    • 3.Changed capacities warrant changed moral responses; we already calibrate respect based on competence (e.g., children, diminished capacity).
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    • 1.Moral status derives from humanity itself, not contingent capacities; this avoids dangerous grounds for denying respect to vulnerable groups.
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    • 2.Vice typically involves weakness of will, not capacity loss; the vicious person retains rationality but acts against it, preserving their moral standing.
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    • 3.Degraded capacities create duties to restore, not to withhold respect; respecting persons includes respecting their potential for reform.
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