  According to these two models, what moral status do borderline persons have? DeGrazia’s argument continues: personhood-relevant properties come in degrees, and so on the Unequal Consideration Model, it is plausible to say that the amount of consideration an individual is due is proportional to its “cognitive, emotional, and social complexity” (DeGrazia 2007, 323). Depending on how fine-grained the account is, borderline persons would therefore either have the same moral status as a paradigmatic person (viz., full moral status) or, at most, be due only slightly less consideration than paradigmatic persons.