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    It is not the case that Creating post-humans would disenfranchise humans who lack adequate functional capacities, such as infants and the mentally disabled

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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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    • 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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