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    It is not the case that Equal moral status cannot be grounded in reflective capacity alone, because people vary in their degree of reflective capacity.

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    • 1.Korsgaard argues that reflective capacities ground our obligations to others and others' obligations to regard us as moral equals.
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    • 2.People vary in their capacity to reflectively consider options and choose sensibly from among them.
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    • 3.If moral status is grounded in a capacity that varies among individuals, then moral status should vary accordingly.
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    • 1.Rawls argues that moral status requires only a 'range property': once a threshold of moral capacity is met, all above it are equal regardless of degree.
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    • 2.Treating supra-threshold variations in reflective capacity as morally decisive would license aristocratic hierarchies that virtually all considered moral judgments condemn.
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    • 3.A threshold account preserves equal status while acknowledging variation, showing Korsgaard's grounding can survive without entailing proportional moral worth.
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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity grounds dignity in the mere possession of rational agency as a kind, not in its quantitative exercise or developmental degree.
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    • 2.Capacities that admit of degrees in their exercise—like strength or memory—do not thereby ground proportional moral claims, so reflective capacity need not either.
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    • 3.Anderson's relational egalitarianism holds that equal moral status is a normative commitment about how persons must treat one another, not a descriptive report of cognitive measurement.
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