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    A savings principle purporting to be 'fair to all generat... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The parties in the original position should choose a savings principle that is fair to all generations.

    A savings principle purporting to be 'fair to all generations' cannot be grounded in justice-as-reciprocity when the beneficiaries of present sacrifice are not yet determinate individuals with stable claims.

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    Beneficiaries(as used in social policy and rights discussions)
    People who gain advantages or help from something, like those who benefit from accessibility improvements.
    Determinate individuals(in discussions about future generations)
    Specific, particular people who actually exist and can be identified, as opposed to unknown or hypothetical people.
    Fair to all generations(in discussions of justice across time)
    A principle suggesting that present people shouldn't use up everything and leave future people with less opportunity or fewer resources than we had.
    Grounded in justice-as-reciprocity(in moral philosophy)
    Based on the idea that justice means treating people fairly through mutual exchange—you help me, I help you, and we're even.
    Savings principle

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    (in environmental and intergenerational ethics)
    A rule or guideline about how much of our resources (money, natural resources, etc.) we should preserve or save rather than use up now.
    Stable claims(in moral and legal philosophy)
    Rights or demands that are fixed and definite, belonging to particular people who can be named and held responsible.
    reciprocity(Condition for full intersubjective communion in disponibilité.)
    The mutual presence of availability in both parties of an intersubjective relationship, necessary for the relationship to fully realize itself though it cannot be demanded.

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