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    FDS's good ought to be sacrificed for the sake of the goo... — Carmelics
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    FDS's good ought to be sacrificed for the sake of the good of the life as a whole, as articulated by EAS in her advance directive.

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    • 1.The life as a whole is best represented by the prudential unity that spans the longest and deepest portion of that life.
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    • 2.EAS represents that dominant prudential unity, while FDS is only weakly R-related to it.
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    • 3.Maximizing the good of the dominant prudential unity is equivalent to maximizing the good of the life as a whole.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity theories privilege narrative coherence over the moral status of present experiential subjects, conflating biographical identity with numerical identity.
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    • 2.FDS, as a currently sentient being capable of suffering and pleasure, possesses interests that generate present-tense moral obligations independent of her R-relations to EAS.
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    • 3.Sacrificing a present subject's welfare for a past self's preferences treats the current person as a mere instrument, violating the Kantian constraint against using persons solely as means.
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    • 1.Agnieszka Jaworska and others have argued that the capacity for valuing, not higher-order rational autonomy, grounds the authority of preferences over one's own life.
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    • 2.FDS demonstrably retains local valuing capacities—she forms attachments, experiences enjoyment, and expresses preferences—sufficient to ground a competing claim of self-determination.
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    • 3.An advance directive that overrides the expressed present values of a valuing subject cannot claim authority on autonomy grounds without begging the question of which temporal self's autonomy is privileged.
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    And here is yet another way of looking at the matter. Suppose we agree with Parfit and others that identity just is not what matters for, among other things, defining and delimiting the scope of egoistic concern; suppose instead it is Relation R. FDS, because of her loss of memory and the like, will bear a very limited degree of that relation to EAS. EAS will thus be strongly R-related with most of the previous stages of her life (the chains of connectedness, let us stipulate, are very st
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