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    It is not the case that Harm requires a subject who can experience or have interests frustrated at the time the harmful event occurs.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

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    • 1.Future people can be harmed by present actions (climate change) even if they don't exist when the harm occurs.
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    • 2.Destroying a magnificent artwork harms the work itself and violates its intrinsic value, independent of observer suffering.
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    • 3.Comatose patients can be harmed by violations of their autonomy despite lacking current capacity for experience or interests.
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      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Harm presupposes the capacity for subjective experience; rocks cannot be harmed because they lack consciousness.
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    • 2.Only beings with interests can have those interests frustrated; a being with no preferences cannot suffer deprivation.
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    • 3.Harm requires a temporal connection between harm and the subject experiencing it; harm must occur to someone present.
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