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Area of Science:

  • Moral Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Metaphysics

Background:

  • The nonidentity problem (NIP) challenges the intuition that harm must affect a specific individual.
  • Existing ethical theories struggle to account for harm in cases of creation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a new theory of harming.
  • To offer a novel solution to the nonidentity problem (NIP).
  • To establish conditions under which inflicting a burden constitutes harm.

Main Methods:

  • Constructing a novel theory of harming.
  • Analyzing the conditions for discretizing burdens inflicted in beneficial contexts.
  • Applying concept expansion logic to ethical dilemmas in creation.

Main Results:

  • Harm is identified only when a burden can be discretized as a separate entity.
  • This allows for the possibility of harming when bringing beings into existence.
  • A new concept of wronging is developed for creation scenarios.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed theory of harming provides a framework for addressing the nonidentity problem.
  • Ethical considerations of creation can be better understood through discretized burdens.
  • Concept expansion offers a method for resolving ethical puzzles in existence-related dilemmas.