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    Challenges→A duty to die need not be grounded in consequentialist or utilitarian reasoning.

    Kantian deontology, the most prominent non-consequentialist framework, treats rational autonomy as inviolable and explicitly prohibits treating persons as means to others' ends.

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    • 1.Treating persons merely as means enables exploitation and violates their dignity as rational agents capable of self-governance.
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    • 2.Autonomy-respecting frameworks provide clear, universalizable moral rules that don't collapse into utilitarian calculations favoring majorities.
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    • 3.Empirically, rights-based deontology has justified essential protections: against slavery, torture, and non-consensual medical experimentation.
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    • 1.The distinction between 'using as means' versus 'using merely as means' is philosophically unclear and allows hidden consequentialist reasoning.
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    • 2.Strict autonomy-based prohibitions can produce absurd results: refusing to harm one person even to prevent catastrophic harm to millions.
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    • 3.Kantian theory struggles to explain why rational autonomy deserves absolute priority over other values like welfare, flourishing, or social stability.
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