+1. Navigating this is easier said than done, and one might worry about some sort of temporal parochialism being self-defeating (persons at t1-tn are all better off if they cooperate across cohort with future-regarding efforts instead of all concerning themselves with those who are morally salient at their corresponding t).
My impression is those with person-affecting sympathies prefer trying to meet these challenges rather than accept the moral character of destructive acts change with a (long enough) delay, or trying to reconcile this with the commonsensical moral importance of more normal future-regarding acts (e.g. climate change, town planning, etc.)
+1. Navigating this is easier said than done, and one might worry about some sort of temporal parochialism being self-defeating (persons at t1-tn are all better off if they cooperate across cohort with future-regarding efforts instead of all concerning themselves with those who are morally salient at their corresponding t).
My impression is those with person-affecting sympathies prefer trying to meet these challenges rather than accept the moral character of destructive acts change with a (long enough) delay, or trying to reconcile this with the commonsensical moral importance of more normal future-regarding acts (e.g. climate change, town planning, etc.)