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Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness

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In this article I make two main critiques of Kaczmarek and Beard's article ‘Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past’. First, I argue that there is an ambiguity in what it means to realise the benefits of a sacrifice and that this ambiguity affects the persuasiveness of the authors’ arguments and responses to various objections to their view. Second, I argue that their core argument against human extinction depends on an unsupported assumption about the existence and importance of existential benefits.

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  • Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth, 2022. "Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(1), pages 105-112, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:105-112_8
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