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What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill · 2022

"Future people matter morally; positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority (longtermism)."

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William MacAskill's manifesto for 'Longtermism'—the ethical view that positively influencing the long-term future is the key moral priority of our time. He argues we must protect the trillions of humans who have not yet been born.

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