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    Supports→It is inconsistent for proponents of a permanent self to promote ethical guidelines against killing or harming others.

    Grounding moral harm in the violation of an indestructible self creates an explanatory gap: what precisely is damaged when no damage to the permanent self is metaphysically possible.

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    Indestructible self(as used in metaphysics and personal identity)
    The idea that there is something permanent and unchangeable about a person that cannot be damaged or destroyed.
    explanatory gap(Central concept in anti-physicalist arguments)
    The alleged in-principle inability to intelligibly explain how consciousness arises from physical processes
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    metaphysically possible(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that could exist or happen in reality without violating the fundamental laws of nature — not logically contradictory.

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    moral harm(Dworkin (1981), criminal procedure)
    An objective moral fact that arises when a person is erroneously convicted of a crime, distinct from the bare harms (pain, frustration, deprivation of liberty) suffered by a wrongfully convicted and punished person.

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