Inviolability and Importance Kamm vs Kagan on Maximal Moral Status In her 1992 ‘Non-Consequentialism, the Person as an End-in-Itself, and the Significance of Status’, Frances Kamm defends and motivates deontic constraints by appeal to the “moral status” she takes to be associated with “inviolability”: If we are inviolable in a certain way, we are more important creatures than violable ones; such a higher status is itself a benefit to us. Indeed, we are creatures whose interests as recipients of.