I agree with this argument for discount rates, but I think it is a practical rather than philosophical argument. That is, I don’t think it undermines the idea that if we were to avert extinction, all of the future lives thereby enabled should be given “full weight.”
I agree with this argument for discount rates, but I think it is a practical rather than philosophical argument. That is, I don’t think it undermines the idea that if we were to avert extinction, all of the future lives thereby enabled should be given “full weight.”