Is the non-identity problem relevant to public health and policy? An online survey.
Keyur DoolabhLucius CaviolaJulian SavulescuMichael J SelgelidDominic WilkinsonPublished in: BMC medical ethics (2019)
Non-identity appeared to play a minor role in participants' moral decision-making. Moreover, participants seem to either misunderstand the non-identity problem, or hold non-counterfactual views of harm that do not define harm as making someone worse off than they would have been otherwise.