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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Capacity to suffer, not capacity for reciprocity, is the morally relevant threshold for being owed justice (Bentham, Singer).

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    • 1.Sentience alone cannot explain why we owe *justice* specifically—justice requires reciprocal social participation and rule-following capacity.
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    • 2.Capacity to suffer is present in simple organisms, but this doesn't entail they deserve justice claims, suggesting suffering is insufficient.
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    • 3.Reciprocity grounds moral agency and distinguishes justice systems from mere welfare provisions; removing it collapses justice into general beneficence.
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    • 1.Sentience (capacity to suffer) is observable and measurable across species, making it a more objective moral foundation than reciprocity.
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    • 2.Reciprocity-based ethics wrongly excludes infants, the severely cognitively disabled, and comatose persons who deserve moral protection.
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    • 3.A being's ability to experience pain and distress directly creates duties in us, regardless of whether they can reciprocate moral obligations.
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