Abstract

This paper is about reasons to conserve, in particular why some things warrant being conserved. In discussing G. A. Cohen’s conservatism, I find strains of four answers to the question why, presumptively, we should not sacrifice existing valuable things, a fortiori destroy them for no overall gain in value. After criticizing the first three, I develop the fourth into a deflationary proposal. That is, it implicates just one sub-type of value and takes certain first-order properties – or the value supervening on them – directly to warrant conservation of the things instantiating them. Rather than sanitizing status quo bias, moreover, my proposal happily bypasses it.

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摘要

本文是关于保存的原因，特别是为什么某些事情需要保存的原因。在讨论GA科恩的保守主义，我找到的四个答案为何，推定，我们不应该牺牲现有的有价值的东西的问题株，更不用说摧毁他们的价值没有整体增益。在批评了前三个之后，我将第四个发展为通货紧缩的建议。也就是说，它只包含值的一个子类型，并直接采用某些一阶属性（或取代它们的值）来保证实例化它们的事物的保存。而且，我的提案没有消除现状偏差，而是愉快地绕过了它。