Repugnant conclusions
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- Quasi-orderings and population ethics
- Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
- The impossibility of a satisfactory population ethics
- Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
- Mere addition is equivalent to avoiding the sadistic conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings
Cites work
- Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
- Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
- Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles
- Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach
- Making people happy or making happy people? Questionnaire-experimental studies of population ethics and policy
- Mere addition is equivalent to avoiding the sadistic conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings
- Optimal population size and endogenous growth
- Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethics.
- Population size and the social welfare functions of Bentham and Mill
- Rank-additive population ethics
- The tyranny of non-aggregation versus the tyranny of aggregation in social choices: a real dilemma
- Utilitarianism with and without expected utility
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(6)- Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
- A new result on the impossibility of avoiding both the repugnant and sadistic conclusions
- Thresholds, critical levels, and generalized sufficientarian principles
- The impossibility of a satisfactory population ethics
- Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
- Consequentialist demographic norms and parenting rights
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