#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future

1. People who exist in the future deserve some degree of moral consideration.<br> 2. The future could be very big, very long, and/or very good.<br> 3. We can reasonably hope to influence whether people in the future exist, and how good or bad their lives are.<br> 4. So trying to make the world better for future generations is a key priority of our time.<p> This is the simple four-step argument for 'longtermism' put forward in <b>What We Owe The Future</b>, the latest book from today's guest — University of Oxford philosopher and cofounder of the effective altruism community, Wi...