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    It is not the case that If burden-imposition generated duties to die, then disabled, elderly, and dependent persons would systematically bear lethal obligations, violating their equal moral standing.

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    • 1.Burden-imposition duties need not be lethal; they could permit refusing burdensome treatment without requiring suicide or euthanasia.
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    • 2.Equal moral standing permits different obligations based on voluntary choices or circumstances, not just identity categories.
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    • 3.The claim conflates a logical possibility (systematic targeting) with necessity; individual burden assessment may not follow demographic patterns.
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    • 1.Moral equality requires that no group faces systematically higher lethal obligations based on their social characteristics.
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    • 2.Disabled and elderly persons are already vulnerable to social devaluation; duty-to-die frameworks would institutionalize this bias.
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    • 3.If burden-imposition creates duties, those most dependent would face the strongest obligations, creating a vicious feedback loop.
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