Philosophy question: how would you feel about an exact biological clone of yourself being tortured?
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Parfit basically concluded that you shouldn’t feel anything, but admitted he totally would anyway... thus, there are still some wrinkles left in moral philosophy.
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Who’s Parfit? Sounds like he has some sort of utilitarian philosopher’s abstract spherical cow mental model of selfhood.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Par and I hit his book “Reasons and Persons” in our micro bookclub last year.
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