The hypothetical future people calculation is an argument why people should care about the future, but as you say the vast majority of currently living humans (a) already care about the future and (b) are not utilitarians and so this argument anyway doesn’t appeal to them.
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The hypothetical future people calculation is an argument why people should care about the future, but as you say the vast majority of currently living humans (a) already care about the future and (b) are not utilitarians and so this argument anyway doesn’t appeal to them.