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    It is not the case that Creating post-humans would threaten the sufficiency of being human as a basis for claiming natural rights

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    • 1.Post-humans may be capable of claiming natural rights by virtue of their expanded capacities
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    • 2.If natural rights are grounded in functional capacities rather than species membership, then being human is no longer sufficient to claim those rights
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    • 3.Discovering rational extraterrestrials would similarly undermine the sufficiency of humanity as a rights-grounding criterion
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