On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass.
Most of us are “time-biased” in preferring pains to be past rather than future and pleasures to be future rather than past. However, it turns out that if you are risk averse and time-biased, then you can be turned into a “pain pump” — in order to insure yourself against misfortune, you will take a s...
| Publicado en: | Ethics Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 521 - 538 |
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University of Chicago Press
April 2011
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