Do we have a moral obligation to the future?

But see, there ARE going to be people existing in the future, too. It’s not like, ‘oh, there might not be somebody there’. There’re going to be people there. Guaranteed. You don’t know much about them, but then, you don’t know much about the people in arbitrary hamlet X in Russia either. It’s all the same.

You might as well set up a catapult pointed at a busy freeway and fire it off, saying, “Sure, I’m going to blitz a chunk of road in ten seconds or so. But the cars that are in that spot will be long gone by the time the rock hits, and well, any other cars who might pull into that spot aren’t there yet, right? So it’s like there’s nobody there!”

I mean that the folks responsible for the vaccine in the first place sure didn’t need it - they did it for others, particularly for those down the line.

The people arguing the other way in this thread will hopefully never become powerful - if they do I assume they’ll have a deadman switch attached to “The Button” because, well, why not? They’ll be dead so who cares?

-Joe

I think this is a valid point of view. I’m an egalitarian myself, so if you waste things it will be to your advantange over mine, but who is to say which is right? There is no great sage to answer that.