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    Non-biologically-human beings could be persons with dignity whom we are morally obligated to respect.

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    • 1.The rational capacities that ground personhood could in principle be possessed by beings who are not biologically human.
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    • 2.Any being possessing these capacities qualifies as a person with dignity.
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    • 1.Personhood and dignity are not reducible to abstract rational capacities but are constitutively embedded in biological vulnerability and mortality.
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    • 2.Beings lacking embodied finitude—suffering, dependency, death—cannot participate in the moral community that grounds obligations of respect.
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    • 3.Hegel's and MacIntyre's traditions establish that rational agency is always situated within a form of life, not a substrate-neutral property.
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    • 1.We have no reliable epistemic criteria to verify that a non-biological entity genuinely possesses rational capacities rather than simulating their behavioral outputs.
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    • 2.Moral obligations of respect require certainty about the inner life of the bearer, which Wittgensteinian private-language arguments render inaccessible for radically alien beings.
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    There are several important consequences of the Kantian view of the scope of moral recognition respect for persons as persons. First, while all normally functioning human beings possess the rational capacities that ground recognition respect, there can be humans in whom these capacities are altogether absent and who therefore, on this view, are not persons and are not owed respect. Second, these capacities could, in principle, be possessed by beings who are not biologically human, and such being
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