Titlebook: Harming Future Persons; Ethics, Genetics and Melinda A. Roberts,David T. Wasserman Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Chil

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Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Livese lives will be miserable than to cause people whose lives will be worthwhile because it entails a theory of rights, according to which our general rights are negative. But it also argues that this theory of rights should be rejected in favour of a symmetrical morality which give us as much reason t

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Who Cares About Identity?ot in itself morally or prudentially matter, when comparing welfare distributions across possible worlds, whether or not the same people exist in these worlds. The moral claim is defended on the basis of a (wide) person-affecting moral principle. And the argument is made that what matters from one’s

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Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?rlds are vague and uncertain, unable to support the finely-grained judgments made in debating whether an action would harm future people. On the more plausible coarse-grained account of personal identity defended in this paper, there is no basis for denying that the very same child can be born genet

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Harming as Causing Harm to act would similarly benefit someone, so considerations of benefit are ineligible to justify the harm. However, in some non-identity cases, failure to act would not benefit anyone: cases where one is choosing whether to procreate at all. These are the . non-identity cases. Not all “different-numb

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Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions person’s life will be filled with suffering that cannot be ameliorated or empty of all the things that make life worth living. Recognizing that this condition is rarely met, the paper then argues that it is wrong to create a person in less extreme circumstances: when the person is likely not to hav

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Harming and Procreating it is that those who choose Derek Parfit’s risky energy policy harm the future people later exposed to radiation, but can it also yield the result that parents who conceive a disabled child, when they could easily have conceived a different, non-disabled child instead, thereby harm the child they a

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The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When is One Act Better for a Person than Anothatures. I argue that the two problems proceed under the same error, imagining subjects to draw haphazardly from a potpourri of actual and expected values to generate results about betterness and harm rather than, as we naturally do and always should, drawing in a more discriminating way from a more