@TorquilMacneil Did your 30 years ago self feel sharply guilty...?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp For some things yes, for other no. I find it hard to believe that that feeling is in some sense a mistake.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TorquilMacneil
@TorquilMacneil Surely you wouldn't take an absence of feelings of guilt as being a reliable indicator of absence of culpability? So...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@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?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TorquilMacneil
@TorquilMacneil Yes. My point is the presence or absence of guilt is not in and of itself a reliable indicator of culpability.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@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?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TorquilMacneil
@TorquilMacneil when we talk of persons (and certainly deficient in terms of establishing culpability). But too complicated for twitter! :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp Yes, not Twitterable, but one prob with that is it must apply to victims too: tomorrow they cannot rationally grieve1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @TorquilMacneil
@TorquilMacneil Not sure about that. But I'm prepared to bite required bullets (e.g., no credit to me for past version of self getting PhD).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp I think it is easier to forego personal credit than sense of compassion for victims though.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@TorquilMacneil Sorry, I have to rush off, so can't carry on conversation. But interesting issues, etc. :)
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