RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 5, 2021 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2021 at 3:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If responsibility to a hypothetical future generation, not yet conceived, seems too intangible to understand - consider debt and reciprocity. The current actual generation has already benefitted from exactly this sort of responsibility.
Or, perhaps, consider our own actions purely in the present. Would it be better to lead a life which respects future life, or one which doesn't? What do the two types of lives look like? Does living one life entail things we would otherwise describe as bad, does another entail things we would otherwise describe as good?
We can repeat the latter case for possible -other- worlds, not just a possible future for this world. If there were another world, and there where good and bad ways to lead our lives in present in this world with respect to that world - it's not clear that or how our moral obligations conceived of in this world wouldn't extend to our interactions with that other.
Or, perhaps, consider our own actions purely in the present. Would it be better to lead a life which respects future life, or one which doesn't? What do the two types of lives look like? Does living one life entail things we would otherwise describe as bad, does another entail things we would otherwise describe as good?
We can repeat the latter case for possible -other- worlds, not just a possible future for this world. If there were another world, and there where good and bad ways to lead our lives in present in this world with respect to that world - it's not clear that or how our moral obligations conceived of in this world wouldn't extend to our interactions with that other.
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