Why should we think about fairness between generations?
Future generations are explicitly guaranteed rights under the Constitutions of Japan, Norway and Bolivia. Why does it make sense to recognise the rights and duties of people that do not (yet) exist?
All human beings – in the past, present and future – deserve to have their dignity
protected and respected. In other words, the principle of equality of dignity for all human beings should be applied not only to the men and women alive today, but also to those born in the future.
“Challenges to Intergenerational Justice”, based on the original work of Axel Gosseries, Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain.