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Ethics

the puzzle that choices affecting who will exist seem wrong even though the future people harmed would not otherwise have existed.

In ethics, non-identity problem refers to the puzzle that choices affecting who will exist seem wrong even though the future people harmed would not otherwise have existed. This meaning comes from Harman (2004) in Philosophical Perspectives.[1]

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Harman, E. (2004). Can We Harm and Benefit In Creating? Philosophical Perspectives, 18(1), 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2004.00022.x

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