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    It is not the case that Monism can account for rational regret in value choice by appealing to different bearers of value.

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    • 1.Rational regret requires that the forgone option had a claim on you that persists after choice, not merely that a bearer of value received less.
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    • 2.On monism, once the superior option is identified, the lesser option's bearer has no residual claim—its value is fully commensurable and defeated, leaving no normative remainder.
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    • 3.Without a genuine normative remainder, what monism licenses is disappointment at a suboptimal world, not the agent-implicating regret that Bernard Williams and Martha Nussbaum identify as morally significant.
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    • 1.The supporting argument conflates loss of a bearer of value with loss of value simpliciter, but on strict monism these are not equivalent—only the latter grounds rational regret.
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    • 2.If pleasure and knowledge are merely different vessels for the same scalar quantity, then choosing ten units over five involves no loss of value, only a lower-scoring alternative, making regret analogous to regretting that 10 > 5.
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    • 1.In a choice between giving five units of pleasure to A and ten units of pleasure to B, the best option involves giving no pleasure to A.
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    • 2.The absence of pleasure for A constitutes a genuine loss, even when the better option is chosen.
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    • 3.A genuine loss provides rational grounds for regret.
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