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    Where no determinate counterfactual baseline exists, no c... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Death may be bad for those who die, even if they do not experience dying.

    Where no determinate counterfactual baseline exists, no coherent comparative harm attribution can be made.

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    • 1.Harm requires comparison between actual and counterfactual states; without a determinate baseline, we cannot identify what constitutes harm.
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    • 2.Vague counterfactuals permit arbitrary harm attribution, violating the principle that coherent claims require determinate truth conditions.
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    • 3.Legal and moral responsibility presuppose identifiable causation, which demands specifying what would have occurred absent the agent's action.
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    • 1.Comparative harm claims succeed when the counterfactual baseline is reasonably specifiable (e.g., 'normal medical practice'), even if indeterminate at extremes.
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    • 2.Non-comparative harms (suffering, deprivation) can be assessed intrinsically without counterfactuals, challenging the claim's universal scope.
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    • 3.Degrees of determinacy exist; vagueness in baselines permits probabilistic or range-based harm assessments rather than incoherence.
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