Rivka Weinberg
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first heard Feb 2016
last heard Feb 2016
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The the h the hold that the non identity problem seems to have had on so many people, its grip continues to surprise me.
So when Parfit discusses the non identity problem, he's like, Oh, this can't be right.
We we have to have a whole new ethical theory because this cannot be right.
It can't be true that we have no way to account to explain what's wrong with what seems to be procreative negligence like having a child at fourteen or burying nuclear waste sloppily, you know.
uh because just the fact that the future people will have lives worth living it doesn't seem to justify what we're doing and he gives up and he says he can't find theory X but we gotta find it.
And then that part of his view seems to have dropped off and the rest of this problem seems to have sunk in so deeply among
um philosophers and bioethicists in own almost unquestioning way as a as a moral guide instead of a moral puzzle.
Um
And of course to me it seems like it is not at all a puzzle.
Um but it but but I'll get to that soon, the part of the non puzzling part, you know, how to solve the non identity problem if you take a look at it.
But the other so one thing but the two surprises first.
One surprise is the grip it has had, and the other surprise is that if you take a look at the prevailing
Um contemporary
Western ethical theories, you know, deontological theories, teleologic, you know, you know, Kantian theories, uh, consequentialist theories, and Aristotelian virtue theories, none of them seem vulnerable to the non-identity problem.
Because the non-identity problem is a problem for any theory that says in order for something to be wrong, you have to t show how it is worse for a
specific identified individuals.
But none of our theories say that, right?
I mean, conscious talks about uh you being able to universalize what you're doing, treating other people as ends in themselves.
Um
Consequentialist theories talk about maximizing the good.
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