Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Economics and Philosophy
- Vol. 13 (2) , 197-230
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s026626710000448x
Abstract
Advances in technology have made it possible for us to take actions that affect the numbers and identities of humans and other animals that will live in the future. Effective and inexpensive birth control, child allowances, genetic screening, safe abortion, in vitro fertilization, the education of young women, sterilization programs, environmental degradation and war all have these effects.Keywords
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