PHIL 1180 Chapter Parfit : Parfit - Energy Policy and the Further Future- The identity problem
28 Nov 2016
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Par t energy policy and the further future: the identity. The nuclear technician some tech is lazy and doesn"t check some nuclear waste tanks resulting in a catastrophe. Risky policy no. we believe that causing to exist can bene t. people struck by catastrophe live lives worth living and would never had existed if we had chosen the safe policy, our choice of the policy bene ts people. Comparison both technician and risky policy will cause catastrophe. the technicians choice is worse for the people who are later harmed, not the same for risky. does this make a moral di erence . Wrongs require victims: our choice cannot be wrong if we know that it will be worse for no one no objection to our choice we may nd it hard to deny this claim or accept this implications. Par t doesn"t believe there needs to be victims if there is a catastrophe, there is some moral objection.
