Now if the foot says, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason stop being part of the body — Paul personifies the members, giving voice to the foot's anxiety: its lack of hand-like function does not exclude it from the body; the logic is reductio ad absurdum of any member's claim to exclusion based on different function.

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