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    It is not the case that Being wronged posthumously is not a kind of harm.

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    • 1.Harm is best understood as a setback to interests, and the dead retain interests in reputation, legacy, and the fulfillment of their projects.
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    • 2.If posthumous events can set back these ante-mortem interests, then posthumous wrongs constitute genuine harms to the person who once held them.
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    • 3.Joel Feinberg's interest-based account thus collapses the distinction between being wronged and being harmed in the posthumous case.
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    • 1.A wrong that produces no harm of any kind — to the victim or anyone else — fails to satisfy the minimal conditions for moral complaint under most normative frameworks.
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    • 2.If posthumous wronging genuinely wrongs the deceased, the most parsimonious explanation is that it damages something the person had a stake in, which just is a form of harm.
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    • 1.The dead may be wronged.
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    • 2.Being wronged is not a kind of harm.
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