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    It is not the case that Reminding ourselves that our situation also has a good side provides some consolation against condemning the human condition.

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    • 1.Consolation derived from reframing deprivation as partial benefit commits the Stoic fallacy of conflating acceptance with genuine remedy.
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    • 2.Schopenhauer argues that the value of life cannot be established by pointing to pleasures within it, since suffering constitutes its fundamental character.
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    • 3.A consolation that requires denying the asymmetry between existence and non-existence provides psychological relief but no philosophical justification for the human condition.
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    • 1.Nagel's deprivation account entails that the goodness of existing life and the badness of death are incommensurable, not offsetting, values.
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    • 2.If the badness of death consists in the absence of future goods rather than in the quality of life lived, then pointing to life's good side addresses a categorically different harm.
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    • 1.Our condemnation of death is based on the assumption that more life would be good.
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    • 2.If more life would be good, then our situation has a good side, namely the life we do have.
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