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It is not the case that Damian can affirm the possibility of restoring virginity without affirming the possibility of undoing the done
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Virginity is constitutively defined by the unbroken history of a person's body, not merely by present physical or moral state.
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Any restoration of virginity that leaves the past intact thereby restores something categorically different from original virginity.
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If what is restored differs categorically from what was lost, affirming its restoration does not affirm the possibility of restoring virginity.
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Aristotle's principle that the past is necessary (what has happened cannot not have happened) applies to relational properties like virginity that are partly constituted by temporal sequence.
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A distinction between 'restoring virginity' and 'undoing the done' cannot be coherently maintained when the property in question is internally indexed to its own causal history.
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There exist kinds of restoration of virginity that do not require removing or altering past events
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Affirming the possibility of undoing the done would require affirming that past events can be removed or altered
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