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    It is not the case that Any principled account of why a feature is worth investigating in a new case implicitly commits to a proto-principle linking feature-types to moral relevance.

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    • 1.Epistemic humility about features' moral relevance differs from commitment to a proto-principle linking them.
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    • 2.Investigators can provisionally highlight features for study without claiming they are morally relevant or following principles.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'worth investigating' and 'morally relevant' undermines the claim's equation of these categories.
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    • 1.Selecting which features matter in novel cases requires implicit criteria distinguishing relevant from irrelevant features.
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    • 2.Any criterion for relevance, even tacit ones, constitutes a principle linking feature-types to their moral significance.
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    • 3.Denying this commits one to arbitrary case-by-case judgments without principled justification.
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