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    Even the morally worst individuals must be regarded as ends in themselves and treated with respect.

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    • 1.Moral recognition respect is not something individuals have to earn or might fail to earn.
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    • 2.All persons possess the grounds for recognition respect equally.
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    • 1.Respect as a moral attitude is properly responsive to the actual values and choices a person has expressed through their conduct.
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    • 2.Kant's own framework ties dignity to the capacity for rational autonomy, which persistent evil conduct may demonstrate one has systematically repudiated.
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    • 3.A moral framework that mandates identical regard for the virtuous and the vicious collapses the normatively significant distinction between agents who honor and those who violate humanity.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds moral responsibility in natural participant stances of resentment, indignation, and moral anger toward wrongdoers.
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    • 2.On Strawson's view, withholding resentment toward serious wrongdoers represents an objectifying withdrawal from the moral community, not its fulfillment.
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    • 3.Therefore, unconditional respect for even the worst agents may paradoxically undermine the reactive stance that constitutes genuine moral recognition of persons as agents.
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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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