The non-identity problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016
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Is There a Difference Between Worse for and Worser For?
Outcomes to the less good for people must also be worse for people. But when some people would exist in only one of two outcomes, one of these outcomes may be less good forPeople by benefiting people less. In such cases, i shall argue, we should appeal to the wide principle: this outcome would be worse because it would benefit people less than the other outcome would have benefited the different people who would have existed.
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