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DOI	10.1093/monist/onae005
	Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being
	Beard, S. J.; Kaczmarek, Patrick
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0026-9662
EISSN	2153-3601
起始页码	107
结束页码	2
卷号	107 期号:2
英文摘要	In this paper, we argue that our moral concern for future well-being should reduce over time due to important practical considerations about how humans interact with spacetime. After surveying several of these considerations (around equality, special duties, existential contingency, and overlapping moral concern) we develop a set of core principles that can both explain their moral significance and highlight why this is inherently bound up with our relationship with spacetime. These relate to the equitable distribution of (1) moral concern in a universe that we can only causally affect in one temporal direction; (2) access to the benefits from using spacetime as a resource; and (3) the burdens of care given (1) and (2). We conclude by considering the practical implications of our argument and find that, while it is often assumed that a preference for present over future well-being weakens the case for existential risk mitigation, this likely is not the case.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Philosophy
WOS类目	Philosophy
WOS记录号	WOS:001185160500002
来源期刊	MONIST
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/292156
作者单位	University of Cambridge
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Beard, S. J.,Kaczmarek, Patrick. Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being[J],2024,107(2).
APA	Beard, S. J.,&Kaczmarek, Patrick.(2024).Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being.MONIST,107(2).
MLA	Beard, S. J.,et al."Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being".MONIST 107.2(2024).