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#321 — Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Non-Identity Problem

The non-identity problem is brilliant. Once I explain it, it will seem so obvious to you that it will you'll wonder why on earth nobody had ever thought of it before. It took Derek Parthett to millennia after the great kind of ancient Greek philosophers to come up with it. So what was the non-identities problem? Gosh, okay. Well, I think the non- identity problem is brilliant and once I explain it,. it will seemSo obvious to youThat's how he sets it up. He imagines a 14-year-old girl wondering whether to have a child. We also think that it would be bad for the child. That if a child

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