Priority or equality for possible people?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Priority or equality for possible people?

AU - Voorhoeve, Alex

AU - Fleurbaey, Marc

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

PY - 2016/7

Y1 - 2016/7

N2 - Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? This article answers this question. It argues that the currency of distributive ethics in such cases is a combination of an individual’s final well-being and her expected well-being conditional on her existence. It also argues that this currency should be distributed in an egalitarian, rather than a prioritarian, manner.

AB - Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? This article answers this question. It argues that the currency of distributive ethics in such cases is a combination of an individual’s final well-being and her expected well-being conditional on her existence. It also argues that this currency should be distributed in an egalitarian, rather than a prioritarian, manner.

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1086/686000

DO - https://doi.org/10.1086/686000

M3 - Article

SN - 0014-1704

VL - 126

SP - 929

EP - 954

JO - Ethics

JF - Ethics

IS - 4

ER -