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    It is not the case that Events that bear on a person's interests or narrative integrity can be bad for them even without producing subjective experience, as Feinberg's ante-mortem interest theory establishes.

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    • 1.Harm fundamentally requires a subject who can be worse off; post-conscious events cannot worsen anyone's actual condition.
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    • 2.Interests in narrative integrity are projections we value, not objective features that generate genuine harm independent of valuation.
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    • 3.Intuitions about posthumous harm reflect sentimental attachment to the deceased, not evidence that non-sentient harm is metaphysically real.
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    • 1.People can have interests in things (reputation, projects, relationships) that persist beyond their conscious experience or death.
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    • 2.A person's life narrative includes chapters they won't experience consciously; betrayal after death still violates their life story.
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    • 3.We recognize harm in cases like secret infidelity or broken deathbed promises, which affect no one's experiences—supporting non-experiential harm.
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