A moral framework that mandates identical regard for the virtuous and the vicious collapses the normatively significant distinction between agents who honor and those who violate humanity.

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To treat with respect and approval; to follow or uphold moral principles and rules.

humanity(The ultimate source of value in the argument's chain of normative grounding)

One's rational nature, understood as the capacity for rational self-governance

identical regard(treating virtuous and vicious people the same)

Treating everyone or everything in exactly the same way, without making any distinctions between them.

mandates(what the moral framework insists upon)

Requires or demands that something must be done; leaves no choice in the matter.

moral framework(in ethics)

A system of principles and ideas that explains what is right and wrong and how we should live.

normatively significant distinction(the meaningful moral difference the statement says gets erased)

An important difference that matters for determining what is right or wrong and how people should be treated.

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