# The New Moral Mathematics

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Kieran Setiya]]
- Full Title: The New Moral Mathematics
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/

## Highlights
- What we do now affects those future people in dramatic ways: whether they will exist at all and in what numbers; what values they embrace; what sort of planet they inherit; what sorts of lives they lead. It’s as if we’re trapped on a tiny island while our actions determine the habitability of a vast continent and the life prospects of the many who may, or may not, inhabit it. What an awful responsibility.