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    It is not the case that What cannot be exercised or is chronically suppressed by one's own choices cannot serve as the unconditional ground for the same respect owed to active rational agents.

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    • 1.Respect for persons traditionally grounds in capacity possession itself, not its active exercise or non-suppression at any moment.
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    • 2.Many dormant but recoverable capacities (sleep, depression, addiction) still ground respect; suppression doesn't erase underlying capacity.
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    • 3.Conditioning respect on non-suppression creates perverse incentive: respect becomes unstable and contingent on continuous active performance.
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    • 1.Respect grounded in capacities should track actual exercise of those capacities, not mere potential or dormant abilities.
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    • 2.An agent who chronically suppresses rationality through their own choices demonstrates it cannot ground their moral status unconditionally.
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    • 3.Unconditional respect requires a basis independent of choice; suppressed capacities depend entirely on the agent's ongoing decisions.
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