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    It is not the case that A time traveler is unable to retro-kill a person who is alive at the time of the attempted killing

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    • 1.Lewis's 'can' is indexical to a set of facts: the traveler CAN kill relative to their abilities, skills, and proximity to the target.
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    • 2.The impossibility of retro-killing conflates two senses of 'unable': local inability (lacking means) and global inability (logical inconsistency).
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    • 3.A time traveler facing a living target has no local incapacity, so the inability claim must rest on contested metaphysical necessity, not practical constraint.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Retro-killing does not change the past but rather constitutes part of the original causal history of the target's death.
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    • 2.If the target dies at time T2 after the traveler arrives at T1 < T2, the past is not altered but simply contains the killing event.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Retro-killing a person would require changing the past
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    • 2.One is unable to change the past
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