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Asymmetric Person-Affecting View

Views allowing moral concern about creating net bad lives while denying positive duty to create good lives

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Thinkers (1)

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  • Johann Frick
    introduces
    Defended asymmetry intuition in population ethics and person-affecting approach

Concepts (1)

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  • The view that morality is about making existing people happy, not making happy people, which could justify not creating super-beneficiaries

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