 Several proposals fall under this heading. Proposal (a) below accepts that the future person p is nonidentical to the person q conceived from distinct gametes and then exploits the fact that p and q may fall under the same description; proposal (b) argues p and q may be identical despite a distinction in gametes (despite, that is, a distinction in the timing and manner of conception); proposal (c) argues, on metaphysical grounds, that the nonidentity problem rests on a certain equivocation in the use of the term “person”; proposal (d) exploits certain predictable mistakes many people will make in thinking about the identity between p and q; and proposal (e) explores an equivocation in what it is to make things worse off for a particular person.