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    It is not the case that FDS, as a psychologically distinct subject with her own experiential states, possesses the morally relevant properties that ground welfare rights regardless of her R-relation to EAS.

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    • 1.Welfare rights may require both intrinsic properties AND appropriate relational context to generate enforceable moral obligations.
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    • 2.Identity and moral status in certain frameworks depend constitutively on relations; FDS's status may be partially relational, not purely intrinsic.
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    • 3.Claiming R-independence requires justification: why should isolated sentience generate welfare rights without uptake by moral community or agent?
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    • 1.Sentience and capacity for subjective experience are sufficient grounds for welfare rights, independent of relational properties.
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    • 2.FDS's distinct neural/cognitive states constitute morally relevant properties that generate direct claims on others' consideration.
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    • 3.Grounding rights in R-relations creates problematic dependency: welfare becomes contingent on external facts rather than intrinsic capacities.
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