The Saturation View: some responses
A couple of weeks ago, I published a draft of a new population axiology that I’ve been working on with Christian Tarsney. It got a lot of comments and pushback — thanks to everyone who engaged! They’ll feed into the more-polished academic-draft paper that Christian and I are working on. Here I’ll quickly respond to some of the most common or noteworthy responses. I’ll generally avoid stuff that is already covered in the draft. What’s the view? Isn’t this old hat? Very roughly, the Saturation view says that the value of a life, experience, or welfare-event depends not only on how high-welfare…
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