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    Challenges→Posthumous harm occurs when posthumous events change the value of a person's life for the worse.

    Posthumous events that appear to devalue accomplishments merely alter survivors' assessments, not the intrinsic value of the life as actually lived.

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    • 1.Value intrinsic to an action depends on the agent's knowledge and intentions at the time, not future discoveries.
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    • 2.A life's worth is constituted by what was actually experienced and achieved, not by how others later reinterpret it.
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    • 3.Conflating objective accomplishment with subjective assessment risks making all value hostage to changing opinion.
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    • 1.Value can be relational: a scientist's discovery remains significant even if future work reveals it was built on fraud.
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    • 2.Posthumous revelations often uncover facts about actual conduct, not mere reassessments—they change what was truly done.
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    • 3.If accomplishments depend partly on their consequences and legacy, posthumous events that destroy that legacy do devalue them.
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