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Monday, July 16, 2012

Rawls' original position, potential people, and Pascal's Mugging

tl;dr: If we take possible people into account, even endorsing the Repugnant Conclusion would only provide a negligible chance of getting to exist. So in the Rawlsian original position, they would be concerned with other features of society than population.

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Posted by Carl at Monday, July 16, 2012 13 comments:
Labels: philosophy, population ethics, utilitarianism
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