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Moral Obligations toward the Future
Moral Obligations toward the Future I. Introduction Until now our ethical considerations have typically involved our interactions with people such as family members, fellow students, and fellow citizens those who together might be called our Moral community. Even when our considerations have encompassed the wider community of human beings, we have still limited our thinking to those presently living to our contemporaries. The same can be said of most Moral theories which likewise tend to focus on the Moral Obligations of the living toward their contemporaries. This suggests an interesting question: Can we also have Moral concerns and Obligations involving those who do not belong to our contemporary Moral community?
future actual people will also have important personal interests—including interests that we have the power to affect by our choices. For example, if we continue our extravagant consumption of fossil fuels, these future people will face flooding in coastal areas, the spread of tropical diseases, and killing droughts.
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