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fwiw, I don't think I have any direct intuition about the truth or falsity of the principle that "All good things have opposites." (Where by 'direct intuition' I mean considered in abstraction from any substantive assumptions about which things are good.)

Moreover, it seems to me like a very strange sort of principle to have direct intuitions about. Certainly, positive well-being has an opposite, namely negative well-being. But I really would think that the only way to form a judgment about whether each and every *type* of good thing has an opposite would be to list them and see. I don't see any particular reason to prefer either answer here (in advance of simply seeing what falls out of one's preferred theory).

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