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Mild welfarism (infographic)
Article: Mild welfarism, avoiding the demandingness of total(itarian) welfarism,
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Mild welfarism: avoiding the demandingness of total(itarian) welfarism
The demandingness of total welfarism Welfare measures how good a situation is for an individual. So we value welfare, and everyone’s welfare counts equally. According to the moral theory of total welfarism, we should choose the option (situation) that maximizes … Lees verder
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Dual moral theory
Morality always involves two parties: the perpetrator versus the victim, the helper versus the beneficiary, the rights-holder versus the duty-bearer, the moral agent versus the moral patient, or most generally: the decision-makers versus the affected people. Due to the two … Lees verder
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My top ideas of 2021
It is time to look back at 2021, to see what are my most important new insights. My two top picks for this year are both within moral philosophy. Interestingly, those two ideas have the same underlying structure. They both … Lees verder
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Tags: dictatorship, discrimination, moral principles, population ethics, rights, unwanted arbitrariness, utilitarianism
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The two intrinsic rights that restrict utilitarianism
An updated and more elaborate article about the new theory of complaint-free discounted utilitarianism, which includes everyone having a right to discount utilities of others as long as that does not generate valid complaints, can be read here. An updated … Lees verder
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Tags: basic right, ethical principles, moral philosophy, population ethics, utilitarianism
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Person-affecting neutral-range utilitarianism
Summary In many examples, such as procreation, animal farming, climate change and catastrophic risks, our choices not only influence the welfare of other sentient beings in the future, but also influence their very existence. To determine what is the best … Lees verder
The problem of possible populations: animal farming, sustainability, extinction and the repugnant conclusion
A personal note Population ethics is terribly difficult. My personal journey started ten years ago with a very simple theory called ‘average utilitarianism’. This theory is simple enough to express in one line: choose the option that maximizes the average … Lees verder
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An ethical minefield. Stepping from the worst to the best population ethical theories
About ten years ago, during my studies in moral philosophy, I encountered the area of population ethics. It is clearly one of the most tricky areas in ethics, a minefield of very counterintuitive conclusions. But it is also one of … Lees verder
A game theoretic solution to population ethics
As mentioned previously, population ethics is probably the most important area in moral philosophy for effective altruists who want to do the most good. There are some very serious problems in population ethics that relate to crucial considerations about doing … Lees verder
Asymmetry in ethical principles
In general, we have to avoid unwanted arbitrariness in ethics. Arbitrariness is closely related to the notion of asymmetry. Symmetry means that an object looks the same after performing a transformation. Consider a perfect sphere with a uniform color. This … Lees verder
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Stijn Bruers, the rational ethicist 