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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Moral Obligation to Bring in More Children

Long-termism takes future states of present people as its focus. We have a responsibility not to behave so recklessly that the future doesn't arrive. And if we assume the human future is guaranteed to arrive because we're not so stupid as to foreclose it, we more than anyone else will decide its character.

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