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    Fulfilling a non-bonific deathbed promise may still be bo... — Carmelics
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    Fulfilling a non-bonific deathbed promise may still be bonific because it satisfies the promisor's desire

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    • 1.Satisfying a person's desire is bonific for that person
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    • 2.A's desire to be buried with his wife C is satisfied by fulfilling the deathbed promise
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    • 3.Therefore fulfilling the promise is bonific for A
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    • 1.Post-mortem desire satisfaction cannot constitute welfare for A because A no longer exists as a subject capable of experiencing benefit.
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    • 2.Epicurus's 'no subject, no harm' principle entails symmetrically that fulfilled posthumous desires produce no bonific state for the deceased.
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    • 3.Therefore the promisor's fulfilled desire generates benefit only for living third parties, not for A, leaving the promise non-bonific in the relevant sense.
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    • 1.Desire-satisfaction theories of welfare require that the satisfied desire was formed under conditions of full information and rational deliberation.
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    • 2.Deathbed desires are paradigmatically formed under conditions of cognitive and emotional distortion—fear, medication, grief—undermining their welfare-conferring authority.
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    • 3.A desire formed under such compromised conditions cannot ground genuine welfare claims even if posthumously satisfied.
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    Of course, Ross might drop the requirement that the fulfilment of a promise must produce pleasure for the promisee and suggest instead only the fulfilment of a promise be ‘bonific’ for someone (e.g., C) (RG 36; Ross 1928–29: 267–68). This seems to put him at odds with the plain man in other cases, however. Consider a deathbed promise with a different content, that A be buried with C, his wife. Suppose this promise is not bonific. Ross will have to say there is no reason to fulfil it (though perh
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