Operant conditioning is an excellent answer as to why you do care more about your future self than a random future person. But the original post asks why should you care more.
Of course, it’s open to you to argue that there’s less room in between “should care” and “do care” than most people think. Perhaps when it comes to both whom and when we care about, there isn’t much room at all.
Even going by what people do care about, however, I doubt that anterograde amnesia generally leads to disregard of one’s next-day fate. Should it?
Even if we have anterograde amnesia, we certainly shouldn’t disregard our future selves more than we disregard other people.
I think that we should care about ourselves over other people for whatever is the simplest reason consistent with when we do care more. It seems like the simplest reason to care about ourselves is operant conditioning.
Operant conditioning is an excellent answer as to why you do care more about your future self than a random future person. But the original post asks why should you care more.
Of course, it’s open to you to argue that there’s less room in between “should care” and “do care” than most people think. Perhaps when it comes to both whom and when we care about, there isn’t much room at all.
Even going by what people do care about, however, I doubt that anterograde amnesia generally leads to disregard of one’s next-day fate. Should it?
Even if we have anterograde amnesia, we certainly shouldn’t disregard our future selves more than we disregard other people.
I think that we should care about ourselves over other people for whatever is the simplest reason consistent with when we do care more. It seems like the simplest reason to care about ourselves is operant conditioning.