Person-affecting view
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title:
Person-affecting view
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A person-affecting or person-based view in population ethics captures the intuition that an act can only be bad if it is bad for someone. Similarly something can be good only if it is good for someone. Therefore, according to standard person-affecting views, there is no moral obligation to create people nor moral good in creating people because nonexistence means "there is never a person who could have benefited from being created". Whether one accepts person-affecting views greatly influences t
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Idea that an act can only be wrong if it is bad for somebody
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-affecting_view
date created:
2015-10-24T21:47:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T14:30:13Z
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