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    It is not the case that To respect persons is not to pursue or promote them but to value them as unconditionally valuable beings.

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    • 1.Singer and utilitarian beneficence traditions hold that failing to promote persons' welfare when we can constitutes a moral failure equal to active harm.
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    • 2.If persons have unconditional value, then maximizing their flourishing is a stronger expression of that value than merely refraining from using them.
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    • 3.Kant's own duties of beneficence in the Metaphysics of Morals require positive promotion of others' ends, not merely non-interference.
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    • 1.Nel Noddings and care ethics argue respect-as-constraint models persons as atomistic rights-bearers, neglecting the relational constitution of personhood.
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    • 2.Genuinely valuing persons as relational beings requires actively sustaining the conditions—emotional, social, material—in which their agency can develop.
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    • 1.Acting for the sake of persons as ends in themselves means valuing them for what they are, not using them instrumentally.
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    • 2.Respect acknowledges constraints on our treatment of persons rather than goals to be advanced.
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