What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?

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2021

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HAL-SHS : économie et finance

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Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology/Z.Z1.Z13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification

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Populations, Human Human populations Population growth Human population Demography Demographics

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Stéphane Zuber et al., « What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion? », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1017/s095382082100011x

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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)

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