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    Supports→Directed evolution toward post-humanity risks producing oppressive hierarchical societies

    Moral equality under Kantian ethics requires that all persons share the same basic rational capacities, but directed post-human evolution deliberately and permanently sunders this shared baseline.

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    Immanuel Kant(as the originator of this concept)
    An 18th-century German philosopher who developed major ideas about ethics, reasoning, and how we understand the world; he's famous for arguing that morality is based on universal rules that apply to everyone equally.
    Kantian ethics(as a theory of ethics)
    A moral philosophy based on Immanuel Kant's idea that actions are right when they follow universal moral rules (like 'don't lie'), regardless of whether they produce good outcomes.
    Moral equality(as used in ethics)
    The idea that all people deserve the same basic rights, respect, and moral consideration, regardless of their differences.
    Post-human evolution(as used in this philosophical argument)
    A hypothetical future where humans use technology to deliberately change and improve the human species in ways that go beyond natural evolution.

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    Rational capacities(one of the mental features that connects you to your past and future self)
    Your ability to think logically, reason through problems, understand arguments, and make decisions based on evidence and logic.
    Shared baseline(as used in this statement)
    A common starting point or foundation that everyone has in equal measure; in this context, the equal rational abilities all humans supposedly possess.
    Sunders(as used in this statement)
    To break apart, divide, or separate something that was previously connected or unified.

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