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What We Owe the Present: The Perceived Morality of Longtermism and Helping Distant Future People

2024-04-11

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<p>The increasingly influential longtermism philosophy advocates prioritizing resource allocations to relatively larger future populations to maximize utilitarian gains. Yet, emerging research seeking to promote long-term intergenerational concern has overlooked a key impediment which likely constrains intergenerational attitudes: human moral psychology. We investigate moral judgments and social consequences of al...

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Literature Corpus work: 31443d3d-3934-5449-bc7b-536772d25149
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/s5jkc

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