
The non-identity problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016
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The Triviality Problem Is Not a Good Closing
The money we spent on an evening's entertainment might instead save some poor person from death, blindness or chronic and severe pain. Some of us ask how much of our wealth we rich people ought to give to these poorest people. But that question wrongly assumes that our wealth is ours to give. This wealth is legally ours, but these poorest people have much stronger moral claims to sum on this wealth. We ought to transfer some of this to others. What now matters most, i think, is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. If we reduce these risks and humanity survives the next few centuries, our descenders or successors could end these risks by spreading through the galaxy. Life
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