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    Personhood and dignity are not reducible to abstract rati... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Non-biologically-human beings could be persons with dignity whom we are morally obligated to respect.

    Personhood and dignity are not reducible to abstract rational capacities but are constitutively embedded in biological vulnerability and mortality.

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    • 1.Humans universally experience vulnerability and mortality, making these features better foundations for dignity than variable rational capacities.
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    • 2.Care ethics shows that moral understanding emerges from embodied dependence relations, not abstract reason alone.
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    • 3.Reducing personhood to rationality historically excluded those with cognitive disabilities, suggesting the framework itself is ethically deficient.
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    • 1.Biological vulnerability is shared with non-persons (animals, plants); dignity requires something that distinguishes persons specifically.
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    • 2.This view risks romanticizing suffering and dependency rather than recognizing dignity as independent of one's condition.
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    • 3.Rational capacities better explain why we grant autonomy rights; grounding dignity in vulnerability instead justifies paternalism.
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