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What Hangs on the Answer

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Personal identity carries practical freight: responsibility, punishment, promises, compensation, and rational concern for the future all presuppose that someone persists.

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We jail a man for a decades-old crime; you save for a retiree you have never met. Both assume persistence.

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If identity turns out shallow, these practices need new foundations—a live possibility ahead.