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    It is not the case that If witnessing the accident causes no actual suffering or welfare setback, classifying it as 'extrinsically bad' conflates causal potentiality with actual disvalue.

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    • 1.Extrinsic badness tracks reliable causal pathways, not only actualized harms—potential harm grounds moral concern.
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    • 2.An accident remains objectively bad even if this particular witness avoids suffering; badness inheres in the event type.
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    • 3.Conflating actual and potential consequences commits the opposite error: reducing disvalue only to conscious awareness of harm.
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    • 1.Disvalue requires actual negative impact on something that matters morally, not mere capacity to cause harm.
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    • 2.Distinguishing potential from actual consequences prevents inflating moral badness of harmless events.
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    • 3.If witnessing produces no suffering, fear, or welfare loss, the event's intrinsic properties alone cannot constitute disvalue.
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