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    It is not the case that The objective stance, as Strawson argued, is itself a form of exclusion from the moral community that cannot be fully reconciled with punitive or quasi-punitive incapacitation.

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    • 1.Incapacitation can be justified non-punitively on public safety grounds without requiring objective stance or moral community exclusion.
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    • 2.Some dangerous individuals lack capacities for moral reciprocity; objective stance may be epistemically appropriate, not exclusionary.
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    • 3.Strawson's reactive attitudes are psychologically natural, not morally mandatory; societies may justly use alternative frameworks sometimes.
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    • 1.Adopting objective stance suspends reactive attitudes essential to moral community membership, treating persons as mere objects to manage.
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    • 2.Incapacitation justified by objective analysis inherently denies the subject's moral status as responsible agent worthy of respect.
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    • 3.Strawson shows moral community requires second-person engagement; objective stance systematically precludes this relational recognition.
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