Consequentialist demographic norms and parenting rights
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Consequentialist demographic norms and parenting rights
zbMATH Open document ID: 0642.90008
DOI: 10.1007/BF00735757
published in: Social Choice and Welfare
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper extends the author's recent work on dynamically consistent consequentialist social norms for an unrestricted domain of decision trees with risk to trees in which the population is a variable consequence - i.e., endogenous. Given a form of ethical liberalism and ethical irrelevance of distant ancestors, classical utilitarianism is implied (provided also that a weak continuity condition is met). The ``repugnant conclusion'' that having many poor people may be desirable can be avoided by denying that individuals' interests extend to the circumstances of their birth. But it is better avoided by recognizing that potential parents have legitimate interests concerning the sizes of their families.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B14
zbMATH DE Number: 4047376
zbMATH Keywords: dynamically consistent consequentialist social norms
zbMATH Keywords: decision trees
zbMATH Keywords: ethical liberalism
zbMATH Keywords: classical utilitarianism
Wikidata QID: Q77093582
author: Peter J. Hammond
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00735757
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4047376