Whatever the potential practical significance of this fact may be, it also has implications for our understanding of ourselves and our values. It means that if we want to think further about the importance to us of our place in the chain of generations, the starting point of such reflection—the default setting from which we begin—should not be the assumption of indifference. We already care about our place in time and about the survival of future generations. We just need to allow ourselves to acknowledge that this is so, and then we need to do our best to draw the appropriate practical
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