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    It is not the case that If reflection were sufficient for rights by necessity, severely cognitively impaired humans would lose rights while sophisticated AI systems would gain them—a reductio most rights theories reject.

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    • 1.The reductio assumes reflection is THE criterion; but reflection could be sufficient without being necessary—multiple bases for rights exist.
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    • 2.Rejecting a conclusion doesn't refute premises; our moral intuitions may simply be wrong about severely impaired humans or sophisticated AI.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical facts about capacity with normative decisions about which capacities ground rights—these require separate justification.
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    • 1.Rights grounded solely in cognitive capacity contradict our moral intuitions about protecting vulnerable humans who cannot reflect.
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    • 2.A theory yielding counterintuitive conclusions (AI gaining rights, humans losing them) lacks explanatory power for actual moral practice.
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    • 3.Human dignity appears to persist independently of cognitive function, suggesting reflection is neither necessary nor sufficient for rights.
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