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    Respect proportioned to the dignity one sustains through ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as persons with humanity.

    Respect proportioned to the dignity one sustains through virtuous self-cultivation is more coherent than unconditional respect abstracted from all actual moral achievement.

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    • 1.Respect tied to virtue incentivizes moral development, whereas unconditional respect removes motivation for self-improvement.
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    • 2.A coherent ethical system should distinguish between persons who cultivate excellence and those who negligently harm others.
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    • 3.Proportional respect reflects reality: we legitimately admire the disciplined more than the reckless, making graduated respect more honest.
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    • 1.Unconditional respect protects vulnerable people from dignity denial based on subjective judgments about whose virtues 'count'.
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    • 2.Virtue assessments are deeply culturally contingent and prone to bias, making proportional respect systems vehicles for discrimination.
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    • 3.Basic moral status shouldn't depend on achievement; even the disabled and struggling retain equal worth independent of cultivation capacity.
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