Population ethics

Population ethics is the philosophical study of the ethical problems concerning populations. It deals with the special problems that arrise when actions or policies cannot be said to affect individual persons but merely to substitute one group of people with another. Such problems usually only arise when our actions affect future generations.

See also

• Average and total utilitarianism
• Mere addition paradox
• Overpopulation

External links

• Population Ethics, Aggregate Welfare, and the Repugnant Conclusion
• The Repugnant Conclusion in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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