Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by averagewall on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:15AM
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People care about what's going to happen after they die. You can see this from any global warming activist. They're not concerned about their own live but about future generations. Are you saying they should mind their own business and ignore the grandkids who might have more storms and famines?
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:12PM
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> Are you saying they should mind their own business and ignore the grandkids who might have more storms and famines?
No, I'm not.
I'm saying that once they're dead, what they cared about when they were alive matters, if at all, because and to the extent people still living care about it, and that there is no inherent right that the dead have to have their will dictate actions or rights of the living once they have died.
Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by metaphorm on Thursday March 30, 2017 @11:22AM
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that's not the same type of thing as inheritance of material property and money. the inhabitability of the earth is an existential priority. what we do with leftover bank account balances when someone dies is not.