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    Challenges→Proximate consequentialism makes it easier for agents and observers to justify moral judgments of acts.

    The difficulty of predicting distant consequences is precisely what obligates agents to exercise greater deliberative care, not to exempt those consequences from moral consideration, as Parfit argues in Reasons and Persons regarding nuclear policy and future generations.

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    Key Terms

    Deliberative care(as describing the kind of moral attention agents should give)
    The careful, thoughtful process of considering options and their effects before making a decision; essentially, thinking things through seriously rather than acting hastily.
    Derek Parfit(as a philosopher being cited for his theory on personal identity)
    A highly influential philosopher who argued that personal identity (what makes you 'you' over time) is less important than we think, and that we're not the unified, continuous selves we assume we are.
    Moral consideration(as describing which consequences deserve ethical weight)
    Taking something seriously in your ethical thinking—treating it as mattering morally, or as something whose wellbeing or interests you have a duty to care about.
    Reasons and Persons(as the source text)
    A landmark 1984 philosophy book by Derek Parfit that explores how we should live and make decisions, especially when our personal interests conflict with what's best for everyone.

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