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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reasons Against

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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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