Bioethical Prescriptions

Given this proposed justification, he thinks that I should support a principle according to which, when the loss to each of many people would be more than they would have a duty to suffer in order that a young person live a normal life span (eg, giving up an arm), then we may aggregate the smaller l...

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Published in:Journal of medical ethics 2015-06, Vol.41 (6), p.493-495
Main Author: Kamm, Frances M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Author meets critics
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Humans
Moral Obligations
Morality
Mortality
Paralysis
Philosophers
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Summary:Given this proposed justification, he thinks that I should support a principle according to which, when the loss to each of many people would be more than they would have a duty to suffer in order that a young person live a normal life span (eg, giving up an arm), then we may aggregate the smaller losses and help many people avoid the smaller loss rather than help the one person avoid death. [...]suppose that authority in a life were given to the combination of all a person's judgments over the course of his or her life (in the way admissions committees give weight to the sum of later and earlier GRE test scores of college applicants).
ISSN:0306-6800
1473-4257
DOI:10.1136/medethics-2014-102543