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[Serious] Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
(May 5, 2021 at 4:46 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
(May 5, 2021 at 4:37 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: define moral obligation.

Something you ought to do for moral reasons.

That's one (simple) definition.

Then yes.


We have moral obligation to act to encourage future events transpire in a manner as we would find it morally important to facilitate if it were to transpire now, our moral obligation however must be scale by the aggregate probability of all the scenarios in which that future event would occur. 


So we have a strong moral obligation to not let our civilization suffer misery of severe climate change in 100 years, because we would be morally bond to avoid letting out civilization suffer such misery today,  And the aggregate probability of all the scenarios in which such misery would occur in 100 years is high.
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds - by Anomalocaris - May 5, 2021 at 7:06 pm

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