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    It is not the case that A misfortune can be located at the temporal part of an entity most directly affected, even if that part lacks consciousness.

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    • 1.Misfortunes essentially involve badness-for-someone; unconscious stages cannot be subjects of experiential harm or deprivation.
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    • 2.Locating misfortune at an unconscious temporal part generates absurdities: the entity doesn't realize the harm during that stage.
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    • 3.Only the temporally extended *person* (not isolated parts) is the proper subject of misfortune and wellbeing assessment.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Misfortunes are objective events (damage, loss, harm) that exist independently of consciousness or subjective experience.
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    • 2.Temporal parts are the correct ontology: entities are extended through time like they are through space.
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    • 3.We routinely attribute properties to unconscious temporal stages (e.g., 'my sleeping self was injured by the fall').
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