Broome and the Intuition of Neutrality
(2009) In Philosophical Issues 11. p.389-411- Abstract
- In “Weighing Lives” (2004) John Broome criticizes a view common to many population axiologists. This is the view that population increases with extra people leading decent lives are axiologically neutral: they make the world neither better nor worse, ceteris paribus. Broome argues that this intuition, however, attractive, cannot be sustained, for several independent reasons. I respond to his criticisms and suggest that the neutrality intuition, if correctly interpreted, can after all be defended.
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- Rabinowicz, Wlodek LU
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- 389 - 411
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- 1533-6077
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