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    If what is restored differs categorically from what was l... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Damian can affirm the possibility of restoring virginity without affirming the possibility of undoing the done

    If what is restored differs categorically from what was lost, affirming its restoration does not affirm the possibility of restoring virginity.

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    • 1.Virginity is defined by a specific physical and psychological state, not merely absence of sexual experience.
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    • 2.If restoration produces something functionally or ontologically different, it fails to restore the original thing itself.
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    • 3.Medical restoration of virginity markers (hymenal reconstruction) creates a simulacrum, not authentic restoration.
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    • 1.Virginity is a social-legal status, not an irreversible physical property—statuses can be genuinely restored or reconferred.
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    • 2.The claim conflates categorical difference with failure to restore; restoring function/meaning needn't require molecular identity.
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    • 3.If restoration requires perfect categorical identity, nothing material can be restored, making the standard incoherently strict.
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