In a critique of this work by Schrader-Frechette's, she equivocates on the author's understanding of "imperceptible difference" and likens an example of the wounded soldiers in the desert needing water to the Sorties problem.
One character in this work who cares for the nearer future only because it is nearer, a trait that the author claims is quite common, is named Proximus, and his defeat does not necessitate a victory for S. In one chapter of this work the author describes entering  the Teletransporter, only to have his mind destroyed by the Scanner, but because a Blueprint of himself is sent to Mars to be replicated, the author shows that this "Branch-Line" case is not akin to death. The author of this work suggests that if future pains behaved like Alice's "Jam Tomorrow"from Wonderland, then they would not matter at all.  In a critique of this work by Schrader-Frechette's, she equivocates on the author's understanding of "imperceptible difference" and likens an example of the wounded soldiers in the desert needing water to the Sorties problem. That critique deals with the claims in a chapter entitled "Five Mistakes of Moral Mathematics." This work shows that while the addition of one more private car does not add noticeably to traffic, on the aggregate level congestion would demand that the use of  less convenient buses would be in one's self-interest, therefore on a collective level ? egoism is self-defeating in the Dilemma of the Commuter. Showing that consequentalism leads to a future of minimal happiness for a maximum of individuals, for 10 points, name this work about the two title concepts by Derek Parfit.
One character in this work who cares for the nearer future only because it is nearer, a trait that the author claims is quite common, is named Proximus, and his defeat does not necessitate a victory for S.
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