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    It is not the case that Kant's Formula of Humanity grounds dignity in rational nature as an end, but Korsgaard and Parfit show this generates scalar, not binary, attributions of moral status.

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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity requires treating rational agents as ends *in themselves*—a categorical status immune to degree.
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    • 2.Distinguishing between minimal rational capacity (sufficient for dignity) and fuller rationality avoids conflating two separate concepts.
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    • 3.Scalar moral status entails that severely cognitively impaired humans warrant less consideration than intellectually typical humans, which violates equal dignity.
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    • 1.Rational capacities admit degrees: some beings have greater autonomy, self-awareness, or future planning than others.
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    • 2.If dignity derives from rational nature, and rational nature varies in degree, then moral status must scale accordingly.
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    • 3.Korsgaard and Parfit's scalar view better explains our intuitions about marginal cases than binary all-or-nothing Kantian status.
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