Full Idea
It is rather difficult to say why one should care about one's future self, even on an endurance theory account of the self.
Gist of Idea
On any theory of self, it is hard to explain why we should care about our future selves
Source
Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.9)
Book Reference
Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.99
A Reaction
A nice passing remark, that strikes me forcibly as one of those basic mysteries of experience that philosophers can only gawp at, and have no theory to offer.