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    It is not the case that Metaphors of moral debt require fungibility: one must be able to transfer, quantify, and discharge the relevant good, but suffering is not fungible across persons.

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    • 1.All goods lack perfect fungibility; yet we routinely use debt metaphors for art, attention, and love without requiring perfect transferability across persons.
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    • 2.Non-fungibility and applicability of debt metaphors are independent; metaphors illuminate partial truths even when their conditions aren't strictly met.
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    • 3.Suffering admits degrees, comparisons, and trade-offs in practice (e.g., accepting reduced suffering now for greater good later), suggesting partial fungibility.
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    • 1.Fungibility requires divisibility and commensurability; suffering is qualitatively unique to each person's experience and cannot be divided or equated.
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    • 2.Moral debt metaphors presume one person can discharge obligation by compensating another; but victim's suffering remains regardless of perpetrator's payment.
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    • 3.Money and goods can satisfy equivalent needs across persons, but psychological trauma of individual X cannot be transferred to or absorbed by individual Y.
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