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    It is not the case that Equal moral status can be grounded in the all-or-nothing capacity for reflective self-authorship even if individuals exercise this capacity to varying degrees in practice.

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    • 1.The threshold for possessing the capacity for reflective self-authorship is itself a matter of degree, not a binary fact about persons.
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    • 2.If the capacity admits of degrees below the threshold, the choice of threshold is arbitrary and cannot ground equal status without independent justification.
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    • 3.An arbitrary threshold cannot do the normative work of grounding equal moral status without collapsing into the degree-based view it was meant to replace.
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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity grounds dignity in rational nature as an end, but Korsgaard and Parfit show this generates scalar, not binary, attributions of moral status.
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    • 2.If the philosophical tradition most committed to capacity-based equal status actually entails gradations, the all-or-nothing claim lacks its strongest historical support.
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    • 1.The capacity for reflective self-authorship is an all-or-nothing capacity rather than one that admits of degrees.
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    • 2.What grounds equal status is possession of the capacity, not the degree to which it is exercised.
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