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    It is not the case that Non-biologically-human beings could be persons with dignity whom we are morally obligated to respect.

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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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    • 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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