A topic within Applied Ethics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
2 works
Lukas Meyer
Asks whether people who do not yet exist can hold rights against those alive now, and whether that is even the right question to ask, given the way present choices determine which future people come to exist at all.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Hilary Greaves & William MacAskill
Argues that because the number of people who could exist in the future vastly outweighs the present population, the most important feature of an action is usually its effect on the far future rather than its more immediate consequences.
link checked 17 Sept 2026