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    Creating post-humans would disenfranchise humans who lack... — Carmelics
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    Creating post-humans would disenfranchise humans who lack adequate functional capacities, such as infants and the mentally disabled

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    • 1.Rawlsian justice requires that social institutions be evaluated by their effects on the least advantaged members of society.
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    • 2.Post-human creation restructures the baseline of 'normal' capacities, making infants and disabled persons structurally least advantaged.
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    • 3.Restructuring the baseline of normal capacities without consent violates the difference principle by worsening relative standing of the vulnerable.
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    • 1.Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach grounds dignity in the protection of threshold-level functioning across species-neutral dimensions.
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    • 2.When post-humans redefine threshold-level functioning upward, those below the new threshold lose institutional recognition of their dignity claims.
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    • 3.Institutional recognition of dignity claims, not merely formal legal status, determines effective disenfranchisement under Nussbaum's framework.
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    • 1.If natural rights are granted on the basis of functional capacities rather than species membership, then humans who cannot demonstrate adequate functional capacities would not qualify for equivalent moral status
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    • 2.Infants and the mentally disabled cannot demonstrate adequate functional capacities under a species-neutral standard
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    • 3.Creating post-humans would shift the basis of rights claims toward functional capacities
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    Other opponents of directed evolution extend the argument further. They acknowledge that post-humans may be capable of claiming the same natural rights as humans by virtue of their capacities, but argue that creating such a species would challenge the notion that being human is sufficient for claiming those rights, in the same ways that discovering rational extraterrestrials would. This, in turn, would potentially disenfranchise the humans, like infants or the mentally disabled, who cannot show
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