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    It is not the case that Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as persons with humanity.

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    • 1.Humanity, as Kant defines it, is the capacity for rational self-governance; persistent vicious willing can constitute a practical abandonment of this capacity.
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    • 2.What cannot be exercised or is chronically suppressed by one's own choices cannot serve as the unconditional ground for the same respect owed to active rational agents.
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    • 3.Therefore, radical moral corruption may attenuate rather than preserve the Kantian basis for full personal respect.
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    • 1.Aristotle and the virtue ethics tradition hold that character is constituted through habituated choices, making moral status genuinely responsive to one's volitional history.
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    • 2.A being who has systematically degraded their own rational and social capacities through vice has thereby altered the morally relevant features that ground claims to respect.
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    • 3.Respect proportioned to the dignity one sustains through virtuous self-cultivation is more coherent than unconditional respect abstracted from all actual moral achievement.
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    • 1.Persons cannot lose their humanity by their misdeeds.
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    • 2.Respect for the humanity in persons is owed simply because they are persons.
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