Great video. Just wondering where did Derek Parfit write the collapsed building argument?

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Thanks Richard. It's the "Third Earthquake" example in "On What Matters", volume one, part 2, chapter 9. Technically, the argument is Lazari-Radek and Singer's. They alter Parfit's example to make a point about the separateness of persons (in "The Point of View of the Universe") whereas Parfit is talking about the albeit related Kantian concept of treating someone merely as a means