What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?

Stéphane Zuber, Nikhil Venkatesh, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Christian Tarsney, H. Orri Stefánsson, Katie Steele, Dean Spears, Jeff Sebo, Marcus Pivato, Toby Ord, Yew-Kwang Ng (), Michal Masny, William Macaskill, Nicholas Lawson, Kevin Kuruc, Michelle Hutchinson, Johan Gustafsson, Hilary Greaves, Lisa Forsberg, Marc Fleurbaey, Diane Coffey, Sususmu Cato (), Clinton Castro, Tim Campbell, Mark Budolfson, John Broome, Alexander Berger, Nick Beckstead and Geir Asheim
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Abstract: The Repugnant Conclusion is an implication of some approaches to population ethics. It states, in Derek Parfit's original formulation, For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose existence, if other things are equal, would be better, even though its members have lives that are barely worth living. (Parfit 1984: 388)

Date: 2021
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Published in Utilitas, 2021, 33 (4), pp.379-383. ⟨10.1017/s095382082100011x⟩

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