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    Challenges→Metaphors of moral debt require fungibility: one must be able to transfer, quantify, and discharge the relevant good, but suffering is not fungible across persons.

    Suffering admits degrees, comparisons, and trade-offs in practice (e.g., accepting reduced suffering now for greater good later), suggesting partial fungibility.

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