"Those practices do incur harm," he said, and should come under the scrutiny of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
At those times when (living) people are responsive, they may incur harm; because shoes are never responsive, they can never incur harm.
Is it plausible to argue that dead people can still incur harm?
Eternalism, the position that those who are harmed by death are always incurring harm, is surely wrong.
Assuming he is unresponsive while dead, it is hard to take seriously the idea that he incurs harm then.
Nevertheless, concurrentists could be correct about when death harms us even if they are wrong about the time we incur harm from posthumous events.
Detection and prevention of repackaging is also beneficial for original developer/publisher as they do not incur harm to revenue or reputation.
The problem, of course, is that by the time posthumous events occur nothing remaining of us is capable of incurring harm.
This puzzle is the problem of locating the time during which we incur harm for which death and posthumous events are responsible.
Perhaps, but they owe us an explanation of how it is that we can incur harm, albeit by deprivation, during a stretch of time when we are unresponsive.
Subsequentism is more plausible, but it is hard to make sense of the idea of incurring harm posthumously, since we are not responsive while dead.
