They exist to the probability of them coming into existence. It's not a 1/1 trade if their existence isn't certain. 100 future people with a 90% chance of coming into existence should have the moral weight of 90 people.
Philosophers help me plz How do possible futures & future lives fit into ethics if they don't yet exist Also is there a word like anthropomorphising but in the sense that you treat something as conscious/existing when it ain't
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How do you determine the chance of someone coming into existence Plus, if current actions lessen the probability of future people coming to existence, does that lessen the moral weight they hold? Sorry if these are silly questions :p
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They fit into ethics to the extent that they will eventually come to exist. E.g, you sacrifice some of your time to help your future self, who doesn't yet exist. You do this because you think it's likely that future person will come to exist.
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Very succinct. thanks!
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Since there is no agreed on definition of "consciousness" there's no way to say something is or is not conscious. And every individual has their own ethics, so how they value others, be they elsewhere in space, or elsewhen in time, is up to them.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Depends on the problem. Have a particular one in mind? There’s no general-purpose way to decide moral issues involving future people - or present people for that matter. Btw, utilitarian calculations are useless when probabilities and utilities are unknown, as they often are.
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Future situations and future people are part of many moral explanations about what we should do in the present. This is precisely because many of our best non-moral explanations tell us that *those situations and people will exist, but only if we make the right moral choices*.
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God help us.
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This is one of the key reasons i do not believe in reincarnation as most understand it
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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