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* Thanks to Chris Belshaw, Campbell Brown, Earl Conee, David DeGrazia, Neil Feit, Andre Gallois, Peter Hanowell, Liz Harman, Larry James, Ishani Maitra, Sarah McGrath, Jeff McMahan, Harry Silverstein, Roy Sorensen, Irem Kurtsal Steen, several anonymous referees, the editors of Ethics, and audiences at the Syracuse working papers group, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Geneseo, the Creighton Club, and the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference for helpful comments and discussion. 1. Perhaps one will wonder, how could such facts be known? But the examples are merely hypothetical; there are no secret facts to be known about them. The details are stipulated. In any actual case, there would be a problem of knowledge; the best we could do would be to rely on statistics and actuarial tables to determine what sort of life it is most reasonable to suppose the victim would have had. But the topic here is not how we can know how bad someone’s death is but what makes it bad.
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