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Consider: Past or Future Pain: You wake up in hospital suffering, as you do from time to time, from amnesia. You are told that you are either the person who had the very painful but completely safe operation yesterday, or the person who will have that operation tomorrow. As the nurse departs to confirm which patient you are, you reflect on the two possibilities.
My thanks for their comments to participants in the ‘Time and Ethics’ conference, University of Otago, February 2001, and especially to Heather Dyke, Martin Wilkinson, and Krister Bykvist.
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Moore, A. (2003). Time and Well-Being. In: Dyke, H. (eds) Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3530-8_7
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