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To whom?
BTW, following Gary Drescher in Good and Real, I think of “real” as an indexical, i.e. something is real if it's causally connected with the speaker, or with something that's causally connected with the speaker, or with something that's causally connected with something that's causally connected with the speaker, etc. And as far as I can introspect, I only care about things that are real in this sense.
You should say you are following David Lewis I suppose.
I don't remember reading anything by him, but... [googles] Yeah, I guess so, even though IMO Drescher's way of putting it makes it clearer (than the English Wikipedia's description of Lewis's view) that Egan's Law isn't violated. (Conversely, I think that Drescher's discussion of space-time is much worse from that point of view -- “static” means a constant function of time, not just a single-valued one! I thought that after Zeno we had cleared that up; a much better way to describe B-theory AKA eternalism AKA block time is this.)