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However, while both notions can be understood to reflect the person-affecting view as specified above (Section 1), only the first fulfills the stronger conditions of Parfit's "two-state requirement" or "better-or-worse-for-the-same-person" requirement: "we benefit or harm someone only if we cause him to be better or worse off than he would otherwise at that time have been" (Parfit 1984, 487).
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Or might we benefit from listening to the disparate expressions – both what the brothers' said and how they behaved – and consider how these are incorporated into the mix of feelings we have towards siblings.
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(Yet we benefit by forgiving the murderer or abuser. ).
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