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    It is not the case that Directed evolution toward post-humanity risks producing oppressive hierarchical societies

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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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    • 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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