Re: In real life people say yes to \"this\" question
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Suppose the only thing I care about is not causing harm. Then it immediately follows that I care about one and not the other.
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Yeah, I know like Dawkins. It is the future part I don’t get. How can one have feelings about a future person? It is so - not sure the word I am looking for - religious-like?
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As I said at the beginning I can't see any significant difference between a future person and a far away person but I assume you see nothing strange in not wanting to harm strangers in a far away land.
The off-chance that there may not be any future people seems irrelevent. Suppose there was a far off-country that almost certainly had people living in it. We still wouldn't agree to sterilise them all even though there's an off-chance there's no one there, would we?
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