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    It is not the case that Persons can be differentially evaluated and valued for their particular qualities, accomplishments, merit, or usefulness.

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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity prohibits treating persons merely as means, but differential valuation by merit structurally reduces persons to their instrumental properties.
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    • 2.When appraisal respect tracks accomplishments rather than rational agency, the evaluative gaze constitutes persons as bundles of qualities rather than as ends in themselves.
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    • 3.Recognition respect and appraisal respect cannot be cleanly partitioned because the habitual practice of differential valuation shapes the moral perceiver's fundamental orientation toward persons.
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    • 1.Egalitarian relational ethics, as developed by Elizabeth Anderson, grounds equal standing not in merit or achievement but in the constitutive norms of democratic community.
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    • 2.Differential valuation by accomplishment or usefulness presupposes a ranking authority whose legitimacy is itself morally contestable within a community of equals.
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    • 3.A practice of meritocratic appraisal systematically disadvantages those whose capacities were shaped by unjust circumstances, making the valuations track social fortune rather than genuine desert.
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    • 1.The equality of all rational beings concerns recognition respect, not every form of valuation.
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    • 2.Differential valuation must always be constrained by the moral requirement to accord recognition respect to persons as ends in themselves.
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