Either in income, effect on other people, or environmental improvements
Those are instrumental. They are important to consider, but for the purpose of this post I’m mostly interested in fundamental values.
Not sure if this scenario removes or carries forward unconscious changes in habits or mental pathways
It does for the purpose of making the thought experiment clearcut. But yeah, that’s something I wonder as well in practice.
If you give a very very large value, do you also believe that all mortal lives are very-low-value, as they won’t have any memory once they die?
Two (mutually exclusive) moral theories I find plausible are:
(All else equal) someone’s life is as valuable as it’s longest instantiation (all shorter instantiations are irrelevant)
Finite lives are value-less
Those are instrumental. They are important to consider, but for the purpose of this post I’m mostly interested in fundamental values.
It does for the purpose of making the thought experiment clearcut. But yeah, that’s something I wonder as well in practice.
Two (mutually exclusive) moral theories I find plausible are:
(All else equal) someone’s life is as valuable as it’s longest instantiation (all shorter instantiations are irrelevant)
Finite lives are value-less