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    It is not the case that If extrinsic badness is simply whatever causally produces intrinsic harm, then virtually any event becomes extrinsically bad for someone, rendering the category explanatorily vacuous.

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    • 1.Causality requires sufficient proximity and directness; remote or speculative harms don't count, preserving meaningful boundaries.
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    • 2.Even if extrinsic badness is widespread, it remains explanatorily useful by identifying which events have genuine causal responsibility for harm.
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    • 3.Many legitimate concepts apply broadly yet retain explanatory value—'caused by natural forces' applies to most events but meaningfully distinguishes them.
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    • 1.Nearly every event has some causal chain leading to harm for someone, making the concept too permissive to distinguish genuinely bad things.
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    • 2.If extrinsic badness loses discriminatory power, it cannot meaningfully explain why we treat some events as worse than others morally.
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    • 3.A category that applies to virtually everything fails its primary function of highlighting morally significant distinctions.
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