Harming Future Persons Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roberts, Melinda A. (Editor), Wasserman, David T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 35
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Human genetics.; Ethics.; Law > Philosophy.; Public health laws.; Constitutional law.; Philosophy.; Human Genetics.; Constitutional Law.; Medical Law.; Law Theory/Law Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0

This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but "noni...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1.The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem
• 2. Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives
• 3. Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist
• 4. Who Cares About Identity?- 5. Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternative Possible Identities?- 6. Rule Consequentialism and Non-Identity
• 7. Harming As Causing Harm
• 8. Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions
• 9. Harming and Procreating
• 10. The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When Is One Act Better for a Person Than Another?- 11. Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-Identity Problem
• 12. Two Varieties of Better-For Judgements
• 13. Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions
• 14. Can the Person-Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?- 15. Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty
• 16. Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time.