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    Each person is to be respected as an equal among equals, ... — Carmelics
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    Each person is to be respected as an equal among equals, without consideration of individual achievements, social rank, or moral merit.

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    • 1.What grounds dignity is something all persons have in common.
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    • 2.What grounds dignity is not something that distinguishes one individual from another.
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    • 1.Aristotle's proportional justice requires treating equal cases equally and unequal cases unequally in proportion to morally relevant differences.
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    • 2.Moral desert based on voluntary action constitutes a morally relevant difference between persons that justice must track.
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    • 3.A principle that mandates identical respect regardless of moral merit collapses the distinction between justice and mere equality of treatment.
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    • 1.Kant himself distinguished between the inner worth grounding dignity and the outer worth established through moral virtue, awarding the latter differential esteem.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates the unconditional basis of basic dignity with the separable question of whether respect admits of degrees beyond that baseline.
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    A principle that mandates identical respect regardless of moral merit collapses ...Aristotle's proportional justice requires treating equal cases equally and unequ...Kant himself distinguished between the inner worth grounding dignity and the out...Moral desert based on voluntary action constitutes a morally relevant difference...
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    There are several important consequences of the Kantian view of the scope of moral recognition respect for persons as persons. First, while all normally functioning human beings possess the rational capacities that ground recognition respect, there can be humans in whom these capacities are altogether absent and who therefore, on this view, are not persons and are not owed respect. Second, these capacities could, in principle, be possessed by beings who are not biologically human, and such being
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