Starmans and Bloom ([1]; henceforth S&B) argue that research on the centrality of morality in people’s intuitions about personal identity does not reveal much about people’s notions of personal identity (whether an individual is the same person at timea and timea+1), but only something about their notions of similarity (how much the person at timea shares properties with the person at timea+1). We agree with S&B that it is important to distinguish between these constructs but disagree with their conclusion.
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