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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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.
I was considering future people or future scenarios as included third parties in the context of externalities
