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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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.
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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No they are important questions! Population ethics is tricky but it's arguably the most important field of study (if its implications are taken seriously). We can look at historical data and guess that the population will grow at 1.05%, and reduce that by our estimated cumulative
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risk of extinction. So if there is a 1% chance of extinction per year and a 1.05% growth rate starting at 7.7 billion people, then we should assume X amount of people will live in the future at any particular point in time. I am working in a spread sheet!
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There are many ways which I'm not here to discuss further to. But generally ethics welcome Veil of ignorance. You refuse to know time coordinates and then decide. This is a core difference between ethics and Law. Legal thought can't accept voluntary ignorance.
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