To be a person, a being must be self-conscious, aware of its identity and its continued existence over time. Reasons and Persons (1984)
I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others. Reasons and Persons (1984)
Classical Utilitarians...would claim, as Sidgwick did, that the destruction of mankind would be by far the greatest of all conceivable crimes. The badness of this crime would lie in the vast reduction of the possible sum of happiness. Reasons and Persons (1984)