Moral agent and moral patient categories are mutually exclusive yet overlapping.

Evidence

Perhaps the best solution is to view moral agency and moral patiency as two distinct but overlapping dimensions, two different sides of the moral coin. … What is interesting though, is that the distinct categories of moral agent and moral patient are actually mutually exclusive. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 160

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the dimensional vs. categorical structure of moral agency and patiency — the central conceptual machinery.
• XREF: Directly the recategorization paradigm sought: whether agent/patient are separable from broader agency/patiency, and how recasting moral terms shifts perception. — connects to: Perceiving someone as a moral agent may preclude perceiving them as a moral patient — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 21; Moral typecasting theory divides targets into agents, patients, and neutral roles for experimental comparison — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 141; Moral agency and patiency are perceived along continuous dimensions rather than as binary categories. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 16 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 160

Broader Connections

• Moral agency and patiency are perceived along continuous dimensions rather than as binary categories. #complicates (0.85) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 16
• Moral typecasting theory divides targets into agents, patients, and neutral roles for experimental comparison #expands (0.82) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 141