Jan Baerts

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In the case of death, though, the subjectivity of harm is more apparent. Death is harmful if it thwarts our desires. But to what extent we experience it as harm depends on how attached we are to those desires. It harms us in that it deprives us of future life. But is that deprivation still harmful if we are happy to forego the future?
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
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