The non-identity problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016
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The Weakness of the Narrow Principle
Some defenders of the narrow principle mi claim that if only outcomes a and b are possible, a would be worse than b. If we're discussing the intrinsic goodness of these outcomes, rejided be those claims couldn't be true. Each outcome is related to the other in similar ways - given fats, the outcomes are clearly equally good. To get the right answer here, we should appeal to existential benefits and to the wide principleThese three outcomes would be equally good because they were equally good for people.
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