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    It is not the case that The preference for future goods is unfortunate.

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    • 1.Future-directed preferences are constitutive of rational agency and goal-directed action, not merely contingent psychological biases (Bratman).
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    • 2.Eliminating the preference for future goods would undermine the motivational structure required for long-term planning and prudential reasoning.
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    • 3.A disposition that dismantles rational agency cannot be 'fortunate' merely because it reduces anxiety about death.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The Epicurean comfort Parfit seeks through temporal insensitivity is available only by misrepresenting what death actually deprives us of (Nagel's deprivation account).
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    • 2.If future goods have genuine value, the appropriate response to their loss is grief, not cultivated indifference engineered to suppress that recognition.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.If we cultivated temporal insensitivity (like the life- or pleasure-gourmand), we could lower our sensitivity to death.
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    • 2.With temporal insensitivity, towards the end of life we would be comforted by the pleasures we have accumulated, even though our supply of future pleasures cannot be increased.
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