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Procreative Ethics | Rivka Weinberg

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Obligation

If you have this child tonight there'll be a whole different set of people coming about in future because of some chaotic situation everyone's embryos get shifted slightly. Do you have an obligation to bring about the one rather than the other? I don't maybe I'm missing something but this seems very similar to the prior case. If you're setting population policy should you pick principal A or principal B A gives you the A people who have worse lives and B gives you the B people who have better lives so then who are the future people going to be?" "I would say you could have an obligation and it would be to the future people that will exist and those feet"

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