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    Sadism, Schadenfreude, and Cruelty.Peter Klepec - 2022 - Filozofski Vestnik 42 (3).
    The article starts from the question of where the theses that we are ruled by sadists today come from, both in conspiracy theories and in explanations of the prevalence of violence and cruelty in modern society. The article first highlights some important recent changes in politics, economics, and society (the fall of the Berlin Wall; victimisation; the crisis of politics and the rise of neoliberalism; the changing dynamics of capitalism, which appropriates and valorises affect and favours the bizarre; the new (...)
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    Mimetic Sadism in the Fiction of Yukio Mishima.Jerry Piven - 2001 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 8 (1):69-89.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:MIMETIC SADISM IN THE FICTION OF YUKIO MISHIMA Jerry Piven New York University Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) was one ofthe mostenigmatic authors of the 20th century. Novelist, playwright, actor, exhibiionist —his novels are rife with homoerotic and violent imagery, while his fanatical and nihilistic philosophy calls for a return to a Samurai ethos. Mishima thus attained infamy in Japan and in the West, as his shocking novels inspired hordes (...)
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  3. Sadism and Masochism: A Symptomatology of Analytic and Continental Philosophy.Jack Reynolds - 2006 - Parrhesia 1 (1):15.
    There has recently been a plethora of attempts to understand the key differences that separate the analytic and continental traditions of philosophy, often involving either painstaking descriptions of the divergent argumentative techniques and methodologies that concern them, or comparatively examining in detail the work of certain major theorists in both traditions (e.g. Rawls and Derrida, Lewis and Deleuze). While partly drawing on these two approaches, in this particular essay I instead propose a rather more speculative way of teasing out the (...)
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    Cruelty, Sadism, and the Joy of Inflicting Pain for its Own Sake.Daniel Statman - 2022 - Journal of Philosophical Research 47:23-42.
    The paper offers a theory of cruelty that includes the following claims: First, cruelty is best understood as a disposition to take delight in the very infliction of suffering on others. Thus understood, cruelty is the same phenomenon as that studied and operationalized by psychologists in the last decade or so under the heading of everyday sadism. Second, for people to be cruel, they need not have proper understanding of the moral standing of their victims. Third, ascriptions of cruelty (...)
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  5. Sadistic cruelty and unempathic evil: Psychobiological and evolutionary considerations.Dan J. Stein - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (3):242-242.
    Understanding the origins of evil behaviour is one of our most important intellectual tasks. A distinction can perhaps be drawn between overt sadistic cruelty and the lack of empathy to suffering that is a hallmark of evil. There is increasing data available on the prevalence, proximal psychobiological underpinnings, and distal evolutionary basis for these contrasting phenomena.
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  6. Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience.Nerina Weiss - 2019 - In William C. Olsen & Thomas J. Csordas, Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books.
     
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    The sadistic trait predicts minimization of intention and causal responsibility in moral judgment.Bastien Trémolière & Hakim Djeriouat - 2016 - Cognition 146 (C):158-171.
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  8. Executive function and language deficits associated with aggressive-sadistic personality.Anthony C. Ruocco & Steven M. Platek - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (3):239-240.
    Aggressive-sadistic personality disorder (SPD) involves derivation of pleasure from another's physical or emotional suffering, or from control and domination of others. Findings from a head-injured sample indicate that SPD traits are associated with neuropsychological deficits in executive function and language, suggesting difficulties in frontal-lobe-mediated self-regulation of aggressive and emotional impulses. Implications for rehabilitation of aggressive offenders are discussed.
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    Masochism, sadism and homotextuality: the examples of Yukio Mishima and Eric Jourdan.Owen Heathcote - 1994 - Paragraph 17 (2):174-189.
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    The End of the Pandemic and the Sadism of Normalisation.Tadej Troha - 2022 - Filozofski Vestnik 42 (3).
    The article discusses the structural dynamics of the Covid 19 pandemic and defines it as an essentially finite crisis. However, this definition does not simply come down to the abstract necessity that the pandemic must end at some point, but rather to the fact that the idea of an end has determined the entire course of the pandemic. From the outset, this idea took two antagonistic forms: From the first perspective, the pandemic can only be ended by eliminating the source (...)
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    A new result on the impossibility of avoiding both the repugnant and sadistic conclusions.Susumu Cato & Ko Harada - 2023 - Economics Letters 232:111306.
    This paper establishes a new impossibility result for welfaristic evaluations when the population varies. We consider a weak version of the repugnant conclusion instead of the commonly used version. It is shown that if a population principle satisfying two reasonable properties avoids the sadistic conclusion, then the weak repugnant conclusion must hold. We use a general variable-population setting where the identities of individuals can matter.
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    Kant's sadism.Ermanno Bencivenga - 1996 - Philosophy and Literature 20 (1):39-46.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Kant’s SadismErmanno BencivengaIn The Ethics Of Psychoanalysis, Lacan says: “So as to produce the kind of shock or eye-opening effect that seems to me necessary if we are to make progress, I simply want to draw your attention to this: if The Critique of Practical Reason appeared in 1788, seven years after the first edition of The Critique of Pure Reason, there is another work which came out six (...)
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    Marquis de Sade: an ontology of sadism. Article one. The primordial garden.Vsevolod Kuznetsov - 2003 - Sententiae 8 (1):77-95.
    The author of the article addresses sadism as an ontological problem and analyses the primordial way of solving the problem of human existence in the works of the Marquis de Sade, citing similarities and differences. To substantiate his thesis, the author analyses the correlation between corporeality and the ontological place of libertines and victims, proving that the ontological status is located in the body. Through the consideration of sadism and masochism, the author shows the transition of sadism (...)
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    Gazing the dusty mirror: Joint effect of narcissism and sadism on workplace incivility via indirect effect of paranoia, antagonism, and emotional intelligence.Bo Wang, Muhammad Fiaz, Yasir Hayat Mughal, Alina Kiran, Irfan Ullah & Worakamol Wisetsri - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Workplace productivity is badly affected by many negative factors such as narcissism, and sadism. In addition, paranoia and antagonism play an important role in increasing workplace incivility. Through emotional intelligence, such negative behaviors could be addressed by managers and their junior colleagues. The current study aims to investigate the parallel mediating role of paranoia, antagonism, and emotional intelligence on the relationship between narcissism, sadism, and workplace incivility. A survey approach was used. Primary data was collected in PLS-SEM. The (...)
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    Shadows of Cruelty: sadism, masochism and the philosophical muse–part two.Charlie Blake & Frida Beckman - 2010 - Angelaki 15 (1):1-12.
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    Shadows of cruelty: sadism, masochism and the philosophical muse – part one.Charlie Blake & Frida Beckman - 2009 - Angelaki 14 (3):1-9.
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    Recovering difference in the deleuzian dichotomy of masochism-without-sadism.Alison Moore - 2009 - Angelaki 14 (3):27 – 43.
    (2009). Recovering Difference in the Deleuzian Dichotomy of Masochism-Without-Sadism. Angelaki: Vol. 14, shadows of cruelty sadism, masochism and the philosophical muse – part one, pp. 27-43.
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    War, Sadism and Pacifism. [REVIEW]Morris Ginsberg - 1933 - Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 2 (2):287-288.
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    Angels, Guests and Sadists: On-Screen Poetry in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini.Thomas Allen - 2023 - Film-Philosophy 27 (3):377-400.
    This article considers how poetry features in Pasolini’s cinema. It argues that the manner in which Pasolini films poetry provides insight into his theory of an affinity between poetry and film, and into more general judgements concerning social reality. The article begins with an analysis of the final sequence of Salò (1975) where I argue that Ezra Pound’s poetry provides a soundtrack for the spectacle of torture in which the film’s libertines engage. Following this, I consider Pasolini’s 1965 text “The (...)
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    Extreme Formality: sadism, the death instinct, and the world without others.Eleanor Kaufman - 2010 - Angelaki 15 (1):77-85.
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    Atheism and sadism: Nietzsche and Woolf on post-God discourse.Michael Lackey - 2000 - Philosophy and Literature 24 (2):346-363.
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    The comic as nonsense, sadism, or incongruity.Marie C. Swabey - 1958 - Journal of Philosophy 55 (19):819-833.
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    Quentin Tarantino: Sadist or Sage?Terri M. Murray - 1998 - Journal of Social Philosophy 29 (2):109-125.
  24. Anonymous welfarism, critical-level principles, and the repugnant and sadistic conclusions.Walter Bossert - 2022 - In Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell & Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics. Oxford University Press.
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    Trade-off between repugnant and sadistic conclusions under the separability of people’s lives.Susumu Cato - 2023 - In Adachi Yukio & Usami Makoto, Governance for a Sustainable Future. Springer. pp. 93–108.
    Population axiology includes two major arguments. The first is the repugnant conclusion, which was originally formulated by Derek Parfit to criticize total utilitarianism. The second is the sadistic conclusion. In this study, I demonstrate that no additively separable principle can avoid both repugnant and sadistic conclusions if individual moral values have no upper bound. This impossibility holds not only for utilitarian principles but also for any population principles that guarantee the separability of people’s well-being. I emphasize the importance of examining (...)
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    Angling and Sadism: A Response to Olson.A. Dionys de Leeuw - 2004 - Environmental Ethics 26 (4):441-442.
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    On Being Ethical Without Moral Sadism.Thomas Heilke - 1996 - Political Theory 24 (3):493-517.
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    Being and nonbeing: The existential foundations of the sadistic killer.John Graham Wilson - 2018 - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 38 (4):235-247.
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    It’s a Fine Line between Sadism and Horror.Scott Woodcock - 2023 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 25 (1).
    Much has been written about the puzzling aesthetic appeal of horror films that include scenes of brutal, graphic violence. More recently, however, some philosophers have proposed that viewing certain horror films as a source of entertainment is morally problematic because of the impact they might have on our moral psychology. By contrast, Ian Stoner argues that viewing fictional depictions of violence in horror films is not morally problematic because horror films do not present violence in ways that risk damaging the (...)
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    'Cover not our Blood with thy Silence': Sadism, Eschatological Justice and Female Images of the Divine.Melissa Raphael - 1995 - Feminist Theology 3 (8):85-105.
    And it is known that some remain for ever inconsolable at human woe; so that even God Himself cannot warm them. So from time to time the Creator, Blessed be his Name, sets the clock of the Last Judgement forward by one minute.
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  31. The justification of torture-horror: Retribution and sadism in saw, hostel, and the devil's rejects.Jeremy Morris - 2010 - In Thomas Richard Fahy, The philosophy of horror. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 42.
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    Ascetic Priests and O’briens: sadism and masochism in rorty's writings.Wojciech Małecki - 2009 - Angelaki 14 (3):101 – 115.
    The late Richard Rorty has sometimes been described as a controversial, or even outrageous, thinker. Yet the reasons that stand behind such a reputation are obviously quite different from in the ca...
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    Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest—on a Quest for Justice?Kyle Alkema & Adam Barkman - 2016 - In Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl, The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy. Wiley. pp. 105–114.
    The nearly omnipotent character known only as “Q” dramatically enters the Star Trek universe when he puts all humanity in the person of Captain Jean‐Luc Picard, on trial in the first episode of TNG. Acting as self‐professed prosecutor, judge, and jury, Q promises Picard an “absolutely equitable” trial, only to coerce Picard into pleading “guilty” by threatening to kill his crew. Q could be like the “Leviathan” of Thomas Hobbes (1588‐1679), an absolute sovereign who has the power to keep people (...)
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    'The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor': The Utopian as Sadist.Gorman Beauchamp - 2007 - Humanitas 20 (1-2):125-51.
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    Georges Bataille, a Reader of Marquis de Sade. On Nature, Sadistic enjoyment, and Literature (submitted).Lode Lauwaert - forthcoming - Continental Philosophy Review.
  36. Population Axiology and the Possibility of a Fourth Category of Absolute Value.Johan E. Gustafsson - 2020 - Economics and Philosophy 36 (1):81-110.
    Critical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnant Conclusion and the Sadistic Conclusion in population ethics. Yet Standard Critical-Range Utilitarianism entails the Weak Sadistic Conclusion, that is, it entails that each population consisting of lives at a bad well-being level is not worse than some population consisting of lives at a good well-being level. In this paper, I defend a version of Critical-Range Utilitarianism which does not entail the Weak Sadistic Conclusion. This is made (...)
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    Revisiting variable-value population principles.Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato & Kohei Kamaga - 2023 - Economics and Philosophy 39 (3):468-484.
    We examine a general class of variable-value population principles. Our particular focus is on the extent to which such principles can avoid the repugnant and sadistic conclusions. We show that if a mild limit property is imposed, avoidance of the repugnant conclusion implies the sadistic conclusion. This result generalizes earlier observations by showing that they apply to a substantially larger class of principles. Our second theorem states that, under the limit property, the axiom of mere addition also conflicts with avoidance (...)
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    The Truth of the Fully-Engaged Subject.Yong Wang - 2022 - International Journal of Žižek Studies 16 (1).
    This commentary provides a critique of Žižek’s 2021 article on the catastrophe of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan with a focus on Zizek’s nostalgic moment of the fully engaged subject. The commentary deploys the actual and possible scenarios of the form of subjectivity in association with the cynical subject and the sadistic superego; and suggests the possibility of an alternative ethical subjectivity.
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    Caring as the Default of Empathic Direct Perception.Khen Lampert - 2022 - Emotion Review 14 (3):194-205.
    The phenomenological understanding of empathy as the direct experiencing of the mental states (feelings, intentions, moods) of others eschews the identification of empathy with caring. At the same time, it leaves open the possibility of sadistic pleasure, indifference, or malice as consequences of empathic experience. In this paper, I intend to defend the place of caring as an inseparable part of the empathic experience, specifically when understood as direct perception. My defense relies on (a) conceiving of attentive concern as a (...)
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    The Moderating Effects of “Dark” Personality Traits and Message Vividness on the Persuasiveness of Terrorist Narrative Propaganda.Kurt Braddock, Sandy Schumann, Emily Corner & Paul Gill - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13:779836.
    Terrorism researchers have long discussed the role of psychology in the radicalization process. This work has included research on the respective roles of individual psychological traits and responses to terrorist propaganda. Unfortunately, much of this work has looked at psychological traits and responses to propaganda individually and has not considered how these factors may interact. This study redresses this gap in the literature. In this experiment (N = 268), participants were measured in terms of their narcissism, Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, and (...)
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    Sartrean desire : commentary on Woodman.Benjamin A. Gorman - 2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy, Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi.
  42. Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology.Marilyn McCord Adams - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.
    Who would the Saviour have to be, what would the Saviour have to do to rescue human beings from the meaning-destroying experiences of their lives? This book offers a systematic Christology that is at once biblical and philosophical. Starting with human radical vulnerability to horrors such as permanent pain, sadistic abuse or genocide, it develops what must be true about Christ if He is the horror-defeater who ultimately resolves all the problems affecting the human condition and Divine-human relations. Distinctive elements (...)
     
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  43. Things We Must Never Do (if Any).Wojciech Żełaniec - 2023 - Phenomenology and Mind 24:164-181.
    Are there things that we must never do, no matter how untypical the circumstances and “unorthodox” our deontic ideas might be? In this essay I try to make evident that acts I call “pure sadist acts” satisfy this description. I discuss several examples of such acts and alert to their being not always easy to distinguish from certain others. Norms prohibiting such acts I call “true”, and I suggest that other, less suggestive, norms might also be (derivatively) true, if the (...)
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  44. Metaethical Lessons of a Failed Ontological Proof of Robust Moral Realism.Marcus Arvan - forthcoming - Journal of Moral Philosophy.
    Michael Huemer claims to give an ontological proof of robust moral realism, the influential view that we have non-selfish, categorical, observer-independent reasons for action. This paper argues that one of Huemer’s premises – that knowing that baby torture is not objectively wrong would provide us with no first-person reasons to torture babies – is false of agents with sadistic desires. This in turn falsifies Huemer’s further premise that the premises of his “Antitorture Argument” are true independent of interests, desires, or (...)
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  45. Critical Levels, Critical Ranges, and Imprecise Exchange Rates in Population Axiology.Elliott Thornley - 2022 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 22 (3):382–414.
    According to Critical-Level Views in population axiology, an extra life improves a population only if that life’s welfare exceeds some fixed ‘critical level.’ An extra life at the critical level leaves the new population equally good as the original. According to Critical-Range Views, an extra life improves a population only if that life’s welfare exceeds some fixed ‘critical range.’ An extra life within the critical range leaves the new population incommensurable with the original. -/- In this paper, I sharpen some (...)
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    Imaginative Resistance and Empathic Resistance.Thomas Szanto - 2020 - Topoi 39 (4):791-802.
    In the past few decades, a growing number of philosophers have tried to explain the phenomenon of imaginative resistance, or why readers often resist the invitation of authors to imagine morally deviant fictional scenarios. In this paper, I critically assess a recent proposal to explain IR in terms of a failure of empathy, and present a novel explanation. I do so by drawing on Peter Goldie’s narrative account of empathic perspective-taking, which curiously has so far been neglected in the IR-literature. (...)
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  47. Scarre on Evil Pleasures.Hugh Upton - 2000 - Utilitas 12 (1):97.
    Utilitarianism faces a difficulty in that what are typically regarded as natural goods seem to have possible occurrences that strike most people as morally reprehensible, yet which according to the theory must be taken to add to the good in the world. Thus, totake a recent treatment of the problem by Geoffrey Scarre, it would seem that even sadistic pleasures must contribute to human happiness and thus morally offset the concomitant suffering of the victim. Scarre has offered a defence of (...)
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    The Phantom Mediators: Reflections on the Nature of the Violence in Algeria.Reda Bensmaia - 1997 - Diacritics 27 (2):85-97.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Phantom Mediators: Reflections on the Nature of the Violence in AlgeriaRéda Bensmaïa (bio)Translated by Hassan MelehyIn order to justify himself, each person depends on the crime of the other. There is a casuistry of blood where an intellectual, it seems to me, has no place, except to take up arms himself. When violence responds to violence in an exasperating delirium that makes the simple language of reason impossible, (...)
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    Loss of self as ethical limit.Kent L. Brintnall - 2012 - Journal of Religious Ethics 40 (3):546-550.
    This Comment argues that Stephen Bush's critique of Georges Bataille's meditative practice fails to recognize how the disruption of the self, and the challenge to goal-oriented activity that comprise the heart of that practice, serve as an ethical limit that protects against sadistic and violent engagement with the world. The ethical disposition fostered by Bataille's practice is a dissolution of the self.
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  50. Is Homo Donator a Homo Moralis?Jacques T. Godbout - 2002 - Diogenes 49 (195):86-93.
    Like many interested in the gift, I have to confess to having always experienced a certain attraction for methodological individualism. Through its way of approaching social actors, methodological individualism introduces the actor's concern: what are the sound principles which account for the behaviour of the actors that are observed? This is the question which individualism compels us constantly to ask. Admittedly, its response is almost always the same: self-interest. As R.H. Frank wrote: Most [economists’] texts mention at the outset that (...)
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