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    It is not the case that Whatever dignity follows from social utility attaches equally to 'individual', since both concepts serve to demarcate morally considerable beings within a community.

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    • 1.Individuals possess morally fundamental capacities (consciousness, autonomy) that communities lack, grounding dignity independently of utility.
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    • 2.Equating individual and community dignity conflates ontologically distinct entities and risks subordinating person-level rights to group interests.
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    • 3.Communities derive their moral status derivatively from constituent members; this dependency relationship prevents equal dignity claims.
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    • 1.Both 'individual' and 'community' function as analytical categories for identifying rights-bearers and duty-holders in moral systems.
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    • 2.Social utility derives from an entity's contribution to collective flourishing, which applies equivalently to persons and organized groups.
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    • 3.If dignity is grounded in utility rather than intrinsic properties, the source of dignity is indifferent to whether the unit is atomic or composite.
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