Abstract:
Many of us devote our lives to (our) children. We often claim collectively to think nothing is more important than taking care of them and their needs; this is crucial to our self-identity as human beings, not to mention as mammals. But something is awry; the way we are evidently treating the unborn generations to come, by polluting our world and using its ‘resources’ up as if there were no tomorrow, makes one wonder if in fact these claims and these devotions hide an unpleasant truth: that we are not in fact taking care of future people. That we do not in fact – in practice, in lived reality – care about them as we would like to believe we do. Some philosophers are apparently happy to admit this openly.
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