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    It is not the case that Posthumous harm is doubtful or impossible.

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    • 1.A person's interests can be thwarted after death without requiring backwards causation, if those interests were formed ante-mortem.
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    • 2.Joel Feinberg's 'ante-mortem interest' view holds that harm consists in the setback of interests, not in the experiencing of a bad state.
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    • 3.The harm is located in the period when the interest existed, not in the posthumous event that defeats it.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The argument conflates harm with the subjective experience of harm, but harm can be understood relationally and counterfactually.
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    • 2.If a person would have been worse off in a relevant counterfactual world due to posthumous events, the concept of harm applies without presupposing backwards causation.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Posthumous harm presupposes the possibility of backwards causation.
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    • 2.Backwards causation is dubious.
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    • 3.After death no events can alter a moment of a person's life.
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