If you punish a 94 year old for the crimes of the 21 year old version of himself, you're just punishing the wrong person.
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@PhilosophyExp And yet I feel sharply guilty for things that the 30-year-ago version of me did. Am I just being irrational?
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@PhilosophyExp For some things yes, for other no. I find it hard to believe that that feeling is in some sense a mistake. -
@TorquilMacneil Surely you wouldn't take an absence of feelings of guilt as being a reliable indicator of absence of culpability? So... -
@PhilosophyExp But if the person who did those things is in no meaningful sense me, it is a 'mistake' of some sort to feel guilt, no? -
@TorquilMacneil Yes. My point is the presence or absence of guilt is not in and of itself a reliable indicator of culpability. -
@PhilosophyExp I get that, but you are also claiming that future me/you is in no meaningful sense the same person as now-me/you, right? -
@TorquilMacneil Well, more that any meaningful sense one can give of it will turn out to be deficient in terms of what we standardly mean
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