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    It is not the case that Happiness is partially constituted by whose happiness it is, meaning 'happiness as such' stripped of its bearer is not a coherent object of concern.

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    • 1.Happiness can be defined by objective features (health, relationships, autonomy) that retain meaning independent of particular bearers.
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    • 2.We can coherently prefer a world with more aggregate happiness even if we care not whose happiness it is—suggesting bearer-independent value.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemic access (we know happiness through subjects) with metaphysical dependence on personal identity for its reality.
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    • 1.Happiness involves evaluative attitudes about one's own life; these attitudes are intrinsically relational to the subject experiencing them.
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    • 2.Concern for 'happiness itself' abstracted from any person would be conceptually empty—like caring about 'redness' divorced from red objects.
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    • 3.Personal identity and projects shape what constitutes happiness for each person; the same state differs in value depending on whose life it is.
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