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What is one serious problem with the personhood theory of why killing is wrong?

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On the present version, what underwrites the wrongness of killing is depriving someone of the present mental representations themselves of that valuable future.

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One serious problem with the personhood theory of why killing is wrong is defining the criteria for personhood, which can be subjective and contentious.
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