In ‘Constructing Moral Equality’ (2022) I argued that we can productively think of the human as a social, rather than a natural, kind; and furthermore, that being constructed as human entails being constructed as a moral equal. In this paper I argue that I was wrong (at least in part). Armed with a more nuanced social metaphysical framework, I explore the possibility that while one of the mechanisms through which the human is constructed confers a formal equality of status on all members of the kind, other mechanisms simultaneously constitute some people as inferior.
