Moral patiency is fundamentally the capacity to receive moral action

Evidence

Although pain sensitivity is an important facet of moral patiency, at its most basic level, moral patiency is the capacity to be on the receiving end of a moral action—the ability to be a victim or beneficiary. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 105

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply defines moral patiency as role-based (victim/beneficiary) rather than sensation-based, crucial for adapting the paradigm to threat perception.
• ADDENDUM: The victim/beneficiary definition is the direct lever for recategorizing a religious group as ideological to test whether that shifts perceived moral patiency and hence threat.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 105
• XREF: connects to: Moral patiency rests on a target’s perceived capacity for pain and pleasure. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 14; Moral patiency is operationalizable through perceived vulnerability to harm. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 62; Perceived moral agency and perceived moral patiency vary inversely across targets — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 39 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived moral agency and perceived moral patiency vary inversely across targets #qualifies (0.78) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 39
• Recategorizing a target by morally relevant features alters perceived agency. #expands (0.75) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 51