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    It is not the case that The racism/speciesism analogy fails because race is morally irrelevant within a shared moral community, while species membership tracks morally relevant relational capacities.

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    • 1.Moral capacities vary more within species than between them; some humans lack capacities attributed to great apes.
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    • 2.If species-membership matters morally only via capacities, then capacity—not species—should be the relevant principle.
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    • 3.Historical racism also relied on claims about 'relevant' cognitive differences; structural patterns of exclusion matter more.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Race is a social construct with no biological basis for moral differentiation within humans.
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    • 2.Species membership correlates with cognitive capacities (self-awareness, future planning) that ground moral status.
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    • 3.The analogy conflates arbitrary groupings (race) with functionally relevant categories (species-based capacities).
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