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and the reason they're the same has to do with
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the universal character and ground of the moral law.
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The reason that we have to respect the dignity of other people
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has not to do with anything in particular about them
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and so respect, Kantian respect, unlike love in this way.
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It's unlike sympathy. It's unlike solidarity or fellow feeling or altruism
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because love and those other particular virtues or reasons
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for caring about other people have to do with who they are in particular.
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But respect, for Kant, respect is respect for humanity which is universal,
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for a rational capacity which is universal,
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and that's why violating it, in my own case,
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is as objectionable as violating it in the case of any other.