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The Inconvenient Math of Mortality: Ethical Decisions on Life, Death, and Intergenerational Justice

Key Insights
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  • The Prisoner of Choice: How time-inconsistent selves undermine living wills and autonomy
  • Physicians as Arbiters: The conflict between compassion and the Hippocratic Oath
  • Longevity’s Hidden Tax: Intergenerational justice in an aging society
  • The Economic Calculus of Cruelty: Psychological distancing and ethical evasion
  • Climate Risk and Persuasion: The poverty of persuasion in motivating action for future generations

Each post builds from individual conflicts outward to global, intergenerational challenges.

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