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There is a significant positive relationship between Gini coefficient of per capita consumer expenditure and suicide rates: in other words, suicide rates tend to be higher in states that are more unequal (model 11).
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Allowances are made for unequal models, unknown covariance matrices and missing data.
(b) Independent-unequal model: pleiotropy components are independent of each other but have different strengths.
DeGrazia distinguishes between two views of what such a difference in moral status consists in, the Unequal Consideration Model and the Unequal Interests Model.
Now, the Borderline-Personhood Argument only requires that borderline personhood be sufficient, not necessary, for full or near-full moral status, but both the Unequal Consideration Model and the Unequal Interests Model quite generally relate moral status to personhood-relevant properties.
The fact that large variations in personhood-relevant properties do not seem to affect the moral status of humans might support a very coarse-grained or threshold view of moral status, but it might instead indicate that personhood-relevant properties are not as central to moral status as the Unequal Consideration Model and the Unequal Interest Model posit (Kittay 2005).
A proponent of the Unequal Consideration Model could, for example, agree that being confined in a cage generally causes a much greater harm to a paradigmatic person than to a merely sentient animal.
It should be noted that the Unequal Consideration Model is compatible with assigning moral significance to the difference in interests cited by the Unequal Interest Model.
For the unequal power model, the reader is referred to [37, 38].
According to the Unequal Interest Model, the difference between paradigmatic persons and borderline persons consists in their different interests.
On the Unequal Consideration Model, this difference consists in its being the case that the interests of paradigmatic persons matter more, in and of themselves, than the equal interests of merely sentient animals.
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