Gregory Kavka began a discussion of the intergenerational effects of personal choices that the author will here continue. Of the choices available to make, there are three important distinctions: 1) choices that affect the identity and number of future generations, 2) choices that affect the identity, but not the number of future generations, and 3) those choices that affect neither the number nor the identity of future generations. In all three cases there is the potential for harm to befall future generations, and the moral implications of each choice are discussed as a function of the actions of the contemporary actor.
