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    It is not the case that The morally worst person has the same dignity as the morally best person.

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    • 1.Kant himself distinguished between humanity's dignity and the worth of particular persons, grounding punishment in the latter's degradation of rational law.
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    • 2.Agents who systematically destroy their capacity for rational self-governance forfeit the very ground that confers dignitary status.
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    • 3.A dignity wholly immune to agential conduct becomes normatively inert, unable to explain why serial violations of others' dignity warrant graduated moral responses.
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    • 1.Aristotle's virtue ethics holds that eudaimonia and moral worth are constituted by enacted character, not merely latent capacity.
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    • 2.If dignity tracks what persons have made of their rational nature through habituated choice, then sustained vicious agency genuinely diminishes one's dignitary standing relative to the virtuous person.
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    • 1.Dignity is not a matter of degree and cannot be diminished through morally bad action.
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    • 2.Dignity is grounded in capacities shared by all persons, not in moral performance.
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