PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Arman
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Week 7: lecture #14: wednesday february 15, 2017. The non-identity problem - solutions: harman & review. A succinct statement of the problem or puzzle. Such actions are puzzling because they do not make these people worse off than they otherwise would have been; but plausible, one harms someone only if one makes her worse off (harman 137). Wrong in virtue of harming the risky policy choice: vindicate our intuitions of why the action is wrong: when defending the conclusion that. Risky is wrong, one"s solution should vindicate our pre-theoretical, moral intuition that the. Risky choice is wrong because it causes harm to the persons affected by the risky choice (137-138). Parfit"s solution to the non-identity problem replacing wrongs require victims with. Cases where our choice brings about more persons: congenital deafness conception, conception within a slave society. There is little consensus as to whether conception is morally permissible in these hard cases that"s why they"re hard.
