The Repugnant Conclusion

• Derek Parfit originally formulated the Repugnant Conclusion as follows: “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” (1984: 388).

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HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

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bioethics

children

consequentialism

ethics

future generations

normative ethics

practical (applied) ethics

welfare economics

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