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    Kant himself distinguished between humanity's dignity and... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The morally worst person has the same dignity as the morally best person.

    Kant himself distinguished between humanity's dignity and the worth of particular persons, grounding punishment in the latter's degradation of rational law.

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    • 1.Rational agency is what makes persons moral subjects; violating rational law degrades this agency and warrants corrective punishment.
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    • 2.Distinguishing dignity (universal) from particular worth allows punishment without denying offenders' fundamental human status or rights.
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    • 3.Grounding punishment in law-violation rather than harm alone provides objective, non-arbitrary criteria for just punishment.
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    • 1.The dignity-worth distinction is unclear: if dignity grounds all persons' rights, how can particular worth justify overriding those rights?
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    • 2.Punishment that degrades rational agency contradicts Kant's categorical imperative never to treat persons merely as means.
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    • 3.Focusing on law-violation rather than harm or rehabilitation may produce unjust outcomes in cases of necessity or diminished culpability.
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