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Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Charles Blackorby ,
Walter Bossert  and
David Donaldson
Charles Blackorby
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia and GREQAM
Walter Bossert
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
David Donaldson
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
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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.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 197 - 230
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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