The golden rule

Abstract

Rational Altruist explores the author’s moral intuitions, which they find are unusually consequentialist, quantitative, prioritizing future generations, and emphasizing the creation of people into existence. They attribute these unusual views to a nuanced understanding of the golden rule, particularly in terms of treating people’s preferences for coming into existence the same way they would their own. However, the author acknowledges potential problems with this view regarding the preferences of non-existent and possible future people. – AI-generated abstract.