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    Challenges→Competitive economic losses are not harms in the relevant sense because they are consensual.

    If competitive practices worsen another's position relative to what they would have been absent the actor's conduct, the consensual framing obscures a genuine setback to interests.

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    Obscures(as used in philosophical analysis)
    Hides, covers up, or makes something harder to see or understand.
    competitive practices(as used in ethics and economics)
    Actions where people or businesses try to outdo each other or gain advantage over one another, like competing for the same job or customers.
    consensual framing(as used in ethics and philosophy of agreement)
    A way of describing or understanding a situation that focuses on everyone agreeing to participate, which might hide other important problems.
    relative to what they would have been absent the actor's conduct(as used in philosophy of causation and harm)
    Compared to how things would have turned out if the person had never acted or done anything in the first place.
    setback to interests

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    When something goes against what a person wants, needs, or cares about. If you want to stay healthy and someone poisons you, that's a setback to your interest in health.

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