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Applied EthicsAdvanced22 minPlanned

The Non-Identity Problem

Parfit's result that an act can seem wrong while harming nobody, because a different act would have produced different people

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definenon-identity problemperson-affecting principleimpersonal valuewrongful life
Assumesharmcounterfactual account of harminterestpersonhoodutilitarianism

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