
Why MacAskill Is Wrong about What We Owe the Future
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Why Should Someone Who Doesn't Exist Matter?
mc caspell: If you could do something effortless to save a person at risk of death on the other side of the world, what does geography have to do to your moral thinking? And same thing about time. It doesn't matter how far away somebody is from you, and also in space. He even says that the joy a person will feel in the future is no less valuable than a presently existing person's joy.
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