Both definitions share this moral -- future generations have the right to expect sufficient resources to be available so they can live as well as or better than their progenitors.
With so many important or noteworthy memes firmly rooted in antagonistic political, social, and moral posturing, future catalogers may over-compensate in their attempts to divest themselves of all bias when collecting and curating, "ignoring the truth for the sake of being painfully neutral".
We feel a moral imperative, as future doctors, to speak up for the millions of our future patients whose health is at stake.
Parfit has always been preoccupied with how to think about our moral responsibilities toward future people.
"You will end up having to socialise much more risk and [create] much more future moral hazard," he says.
Wexler, however, turns the protagonist into an incipient moral hero, whose future course of action the ending leaves fascinatingly open.
All other forms of arguments — social investment for the future, moral obligation, and common sense — just seem so, well, pedestrian in comparison.
