A new result on the impossibility of avoiding both the repugnant and sadistic conclusions
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Recommendations
- The impossibility of a satisfactory population ethics
- Repugnant conclusions
- Mere addition is equivalent to avoiding the sadistic conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings
- Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
- Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
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- Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
- Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
- Maximin welfare orderings with variable population size
- Mere addition is equivalent to avoiding the sadistic conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings
- Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethics.
- Rank-additive population ethics
- Repugnant conclusions
- Thresholds, critical levels, and generalized sufficientarian principles
- When is weak Pareto equivalent to strong Pareto?
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