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    Challenges→Absolute Idealism cannot supply a person with a reason to refrain from harming others when doing so would benefit that person.

    If Absolute Idealism is true, the harm one inflicts on another may metaphysically affect oneself or a larger mind-like whole, but this effect is never experienced by the person confined to the world of Appearance.

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    Absolute Idealism(The position under critique; associated with the claim that individual interests ultimately coincide at the level of Reality.)
    The metaphysical view that at the level of Reality all individual minds are united in, or participate in, a single larger mind-like whole.
    Metaphysically(describing how harm might actually affect reality at its deepest level)
    In terms of the ultimate nature of reality itself, rather than just how things appear to us.

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    Mind-like whole(as the universal consciousness in Absolute Idealism)
    A single, unified conscious entity or intelligence that encompasses everything—similar to one giant mind that all individual minds are part of.
    The world of Appearance(contrasting with ultimate reality in idealist philosophy)
    The everyday world as we experience it through our senses—how things seem to us, as opposed to how they really are at a deeper level.

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    Now this argument has an interesting corollary which Russell does not explicitly draw. It may be that in Reality the pains I inflict on you affect me—or at least a larger mind-like thing in which we both participate—but if I never experience those effects, how can this give me a motive to do or forbear if my interests conflict with yours? How can the fact that you and I are in Reality one (or at least part of one) give me a reason to look out for you, if this oneness is something I never experie

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