That doesn't answer the question at all. How do you know the younger version wasn't the interloper, and now the true owner is back? You're still making a judgment call, probably based on "normality" of preferences.
On Mar 25, 2004, at 2:59 AM, Wei Dai wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:54:25AM -0500, Stephen Miller wrote:I'm confused. How does one decide whether the younger version's preferences are more "right" than the elder's?
When considering whether or not to return stolen goods to its original owner, how does one decide whether the original owner's preferences are more "right" than the thief's?
In this case, the elder (mentally ill) version is an interloper who has stolen the younger version's body, so involuntary treatment just returns the body back to its rightful owner. Economically, this can be justified by the argument that people would be more likely to invest in the future if we reduce their risk of losing that investment to someone with radically different preferences.
