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    It is not the case that Posthumous harm occurs when posthumous events change the value of a person's life for the worse.

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    • 1.Harm requires a subject who is made worse off, but the dead lack the experiential states necessary to be harmed by any event.
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    • 2.Changing the retrospective value of a life does not constitute harm unless the person whose life it is can be disadvantaged by that change.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The value of a life is fixed at death, since no further experiences, achievements, or relations can be added to or subtracted from the completed biographical whole.
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    • 2.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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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Posthumous events may affect the quality of a person's life, say by changing the value of her accomplishments.
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    • 2.Later events may affect the meaning of earlier events, and the latter bears on the value of a person's life.
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