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    Something that is not intrinsically bad for a person may ... — Carmelics
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    Something that is not intrinsically bad for a person may nevertheless be extrinsically bad for her.

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    • 1.Something that is not intrinsically bad for a person might nevertheless make other things happen that are detrimental to her.
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    • 2.Seeing somebody fall and break her arm is not intrinsically bad for a person, but it might cause her painful sadness, which makes the accident she saw extrinsically bad for her.
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    • 1.Extrinsic badness requires a causal chain terminating in intrinsic harm; without intrinsic harm at the end, no genuine badness obtains.
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    • 2.If witnessing the accident causes no actual suffering or welfare setback, classifying it as 'extrinsically bad' conflates causal potentiality with actual disvalue.
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    • 3.On G.E. Moore's organic unities view, value must be grounded in actual realized states, not merely possible downstream effects that may never materialize.
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    • 1.The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic badness, as Korsgaard argues in 'Two Distinctions in Goodness,' tracks conditionality, not causal derivation.
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    • 2.If extrinsic badness is simply whatever causally produces intrinsic harm, then virtually any event becomes extrinsically bad for someone, rendering the category explanatorily vacuous.
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    • 3.A philosophically useful concept of extrinsic badness must impose principled constraints beyond mere causal contribution to harm.
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    However, something that is not intrinsically bad for a person might nevertheless make other things happen that are detrimental to her, in which case it may be extrinsically bad for her. Seeing somebody fall and break her arm is not intrinsically bad for a person, but it might well cause her painful sadness, which makes the accident she saw extrinsically bad for her. Similarly, something that is not intrinsically good for a person might be extrinsically good for her.

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