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    It is not the case that If a person would have been worse off in a relevant counterfactual world due to posthumous events, the concept of harm applies without presupposing backwards causation.

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    • 1.A person who dies cannot be worse off because they cease to exist; non-existent subjects cannot exemplify the property 'being harmed.'
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    • 2.Comparative harm requires the same subject in both worlds; posthumous events cannot retroactively change whether a dead person experienced harm.
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    • 3.If harm applies without backwards causation, we lose the conceptual connection between harm and actual negative impact on a person's wellbeing.
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    • 1.Harm can be understood comparatively: a person is harmed if their actual life goes worse than their counterfactual alternative.
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    • 2.Posthumous events affect how a life is evaluatively completed; a broken promise after death diminishes the value of the whole life lived.
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    • 3.We need not invoke backwards causation if harm is defined by comparative world-states rather than causal influence on the person.
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