People aren’t confused about what they want in any given moment. They want to eat donuts, but they don’t want to have eaten donuts. They don’t want to exercise, but they do want to have exercised.
This is a pretty good reason humans not as a single moral agent, but as a collection of past, present, and future moral agents.
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People aren’t confused about what they want in any given moment. They want to eat donuts, but they don’t want to have eaten donuts. They don’t want to exercise, but they do want to have exercised.
This is a pretty good reason humans not as a single moral agent, but as a collection of past, present, and future moral agents.