{"id":153526,"date":"2022-12-24T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/longtermism-why-the-million-year-philosophy-cant-be-ignored"},"modified":"2022-12-24T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:22:25","slug":"longtermism-why-the-million-year-philosophy-cant-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/longtermism-why-the-million-year-philosophy-cant-be-ignored","title":{"rendered":"Longtermism: Why the Million-Year Philosophy Can\u2019t Be Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longtermism-why-the-million-year-philosophy-cant-be-ignored3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longtermism extends this thinking to what impartiality demands in the temporal sense: equal concern for people\u2019s wellbeing wherever they are <em>in time<\/em>. If we care about the wellbeing of unborn people in the distant future, we can\u2019t outright dismiss potential far-off threats to humanity\u2014especially since there may be truly staggering numbers of future people.<\/p>\n<p><b>How Should We Think About Future Generations and Risky Ethical Choices?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>An explicit focus on the wellbeing of future people unearths difficult questions that tend to get glossed over in traditional discussions of altruism and intergenerational justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtermism extends this thinking to what impartiality demands in the temporal sense: equal concern for people\u2019s wellbeing wherever they are in time. If we care about the wellbeing of unborn people in the distant future, we can\u2019t outright dismiss potential far-off threats to humanity\u2014especially since there may be truly staggering numbers of future people. How [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}