• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Longtermists try to justify their actions by invoking potential, future generations. Those don’t exist either.

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      4 months ago

      They’re presuming that people will exist, which is not a wild assumption

      But that’s not a philosophy I particularly subscribe to so I don’t feel compelled to explain or defend it further.