[Revised entry by M. A. Roberts on July 19, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The nonidentity problem raises questions regarding both the moral obligations agents have in respect of possible future people – people, that is, who do not yet but may exist at some future time – and how those obligations (to the extent we have them) are most credibly explained. It today remains among the most challenging problems in all of population ethics….
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