'Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People': A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics

This dissertation provides a defense of the normative intuition known as the Procreation Asymmetry, according to which there is a strong moral reason not to create a life that will foreseeably not be worth living, but there is no moral reason to create a life just because it would foreseeably be wor...

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Main Author: Frick, Johann David
Other Authors: Scanlon, Thomas Michael
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11842
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064981