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- W2388289136 abstract "The best reason to preserve life on earth is that more lives worth living are better than fewer. But how shall we avoid the repugnant conclusion? Some suggest that we can block it by claiming that good lives are lexically better than mediocre ones. Yet this does not solve the mere addition paradox. I argue that the paradox arises because it entails two types of aggregation. Suppose we are comparing a single good life in world J and a million sweatshop lives in world K. Only J's welfare falls above the lexical level. Since everyone in either world will be equally well-off, we adopt, in Rawls's phrase, 'the principle of rational choice for one man'. All things considered, we would prefer the single good life in J to a million sweatshop lives, and so would any other possible people. But after possible lives have become actual— —when comparing J+ and K—we must weigh one person's preference for his good life against a million other people's preferences for moving on to K. These inevitably outweigh the preferences of the original person, making K better than J+." @default.
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- W2388289136 title "MERE ADDITION AND THE SEPARATENESS OF PERSONS: A CANDIDATE FOR THEORY X" @default.
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