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    It is not the case that Some humans are not persons and are not owed recognition respect.

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    • 1.Membership in the human moral community is grounded in species membership, not individual capacity, as Kant's formula of humanity implies a kind-based status.
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    • 2.Humans who lack current rational capacities still possess the species-typical nature that grounds dignity, making capacity-based exclusion a category error.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Nussbaum's capabilities approach holds that dignity attaches to the flourishing of a human life as a whole, not reducible to the exercise of any single rational capacity.
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    • 2.Denying recognition respect to humans lacking rational capacities commits the same logical error as denying it to sleeping or temporarily incapacitated persons.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Recognition respect for persons is grounded in rational capacities for moral agency.
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    • 2.There can be humans in whom these rational capacities are altogether absent.
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