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The things that are valuable as a means
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we can say are instrumentally valuable.
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The things that are worth having for their own sake,
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philosophers call intrinsically valuable.
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If we look back at that long,
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open-ended list of things that were good or bad,
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we'll find that most of the things on that list
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are instrumentally good.
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They're good because of what they lead to.
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Or, for that matter, instrumentally bad.
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Why is disease bad?
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Well, among other things,