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    It is not the case that The harm is located in the period when the interest existed, not in the posthumous event that defeats it.

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    • 1.A person's lifetime interests (reputation, legacy plans) can be objectively defeated by posthumous events regardless of their awareness.
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    • 2.The timing of when someone learns of harm doesn't determine when harm occurred; betrayals discovered late still harmed the betrayed.
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    • 3.If we deny posthumous harm, we cannot explain why breaking deathbed promises or desecrating graves seems genuinely wrongful.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Harm requires a subject experiencing deprivation; the deceased cannot experience anything, so harm cannot occur posthumously.
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    • 2.If interests are temporally located when they exist, their violation must occur in that same period for harm to be realized.
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    • 3.Locating harm at the time of interest-frustration better explains why we compensate victims during life, not their estates after death.
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