PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ibm Officevision, Our Choice, Candy Crush Saga
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Week 6 lecture #11: monday february 6, 2017. Long causal change, that affects us in the future w/ the decisions we make now. Ppl of the future, potential future of the ppl. The identity problem challenges the person-based approach. We"re only doing sth bad when we"re doing to person who actually exist (person-based) Could have harm a person, but it"s for sth of their benefit (surgeon cutting open patient. It"s to safe your life: wrongdoers are morally responsible & blameworthy when & because they are causally responsible for harm. No difference w/ the identity problem: if one is morally responsible for a harm, then one can be justifiably punished. All of these standard ethical principles factor into what we will be calling the . Non-identity problem (nip: revise parfit"s subtitle add non-" before identity" . We can understand the ethical puzzle posed by the nip as requiring us to reconsider the standard assumptions of person based ethics.
