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    Directed evolution toward post-humanity risks producing o... — Carmelics
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    Directed evolution toward post-humanity risks producing oppressive hierarchical societies

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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle requires inequalities to benefit the least advantaged, but cognitive/physical enhancement gaps are self-reinforcing, not redistributive.
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    • 2.Enhancement access will follow existing capital distribution, meaning post-human capacities concentrate among already-privileged classes per Pogge's systemic injustice framework.
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    • 3.Once enhancement-derived cognitive superiority is institutionalized, the enhanced class gains structural power to rewrite the very terms of social cooperation against the unenhanced.
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    • 1.Habermas argues in 'The Future of Human Nature' that genetic programming violates the symmetry of relations necessary for recognizing others as moral equals.
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    • 2.Moral equality under Kantian ethics requires that all persons share the same basic rational capacities, but directed post-human evolution deliberately and permanently sunders this shared baseline.
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    • 3.Without a common biological and rational baseline, the communicative reciprocity that grounds non-oppressive social contracts becomes structurally impossible between humans and post-humans.
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    • 1.If post-humans claim an expanded range of rights and freedoms proportional to their superior capacities, a rights hierarchy between post-humans and humans would emerge
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    • 2.Human rights are intended as an antidote to oppressive hierarchical social arrangements
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    • 3.A rights hierarchy between post-humans and humans would constitute the kind of oppressive hierarchy human rights are meant to prevent
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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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