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    On this perdurance view, death's misfortune is ascribed t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There seems to be no time when death, if it is a misfortune, can be ascribed to its unfortunate subject.

    On this perdurance view, death's misfortune is ascribed to the person's terminal temporal stage, dissolving the existential gap Epicurus exploited.

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    • 1.Epicurus's argument requires that the subject of harm must exist when harm occurs. Perdurance theory satisfies this by locating harm at the terminal stage when the person still exists.
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    • 2.Temporal stages are concrete parts of a four-dimensional object. Harm to a stage is harm to the whole, just as damage to a car's bumper harms the car itself.
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    • 3.This view preserves our intuition that death is bad for the person while avoiding the logical incoherence of absent subjects being harmed.
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    • 1.The terminal stage exists only at the moment of death and cannot experience deprivation of future goods. Locating harm there fails to capture why missing life is bad.
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    • 2.Even if the terminal stage is harmed, this doesn't explain why *the person* (the whole temporal continuum) is harmed by events occurring after they cease to exist.
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