An Introductory Note. The ethical framework explored in this article asks how we should relate to people who will live long after us. Latter-day Saints already inhabit an answer to that question.

The covenant of Abraham binds us to future generations by design.

The sealing ordinances extend family relationships across all of time.

The mission of Elijah, announced in Doctrine and Covenants 2, turns the hearts of one generation toward another.

What secular ethics is still assembling as a framework, the Restoration has already given us as a way of life. Read the ideas below as confirmation of what the gospel already teaches, and as an invitation to live those teachings more fully.