The non-identity problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016
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Some Acts Effects Are Like Artificial Scientific Experiments
When we ask the some acts effects would make this act right or wrong, many of us make serious mistakes. One mistake is the belief that we can ignore very small benefits or harms. We may believe k we ought to save one person from a year of pain, rather than saving each of many people from only one minute of similar pain. When applied to that case, k is false.
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