Thanks for sharing! I think Frick’s approach looks pretty promising, although either with limited/partial aggregation or, as he does, recognizing that this isn’t the full picture, and we can have other reasons to balance, to appropriately handle cases with many statistical lives at stake but low individual risks. What additional problems did you have in mind?
Hmm I can’t recall all its problems right now, but for one I think that the view is then not compatible anymore with ex ante Pareto—which I find the most attractive feature of the ex ante view compared to other views that limit aggregation. If it’s necessary for justifiability that all the subsequent actions of a procedure are ex ante justifiable, then the initiating action could be in everyone’s ex ante interest and still not justified, right?
Thanks for sharing! I think Frick’s approach looks pretty promising, although either with limited/partial aggregation or, as he does, recognizing that this isn’t the full picture, and we can have other reasons to balance, to appropriately handle cases with many statistical lives at stake but low individual risks. What additional problems did you have in mind?
Hmm I can’t recall all its problems right now, but for one I think that the view is then not compatible anymore with ex ante Pareto—which I find the most attractive feature of the ex ante view compared to other views that limit aggregation. If it’s necessary for justifiability that all the subsequent actions of a procedure are ex ante justifiable, then the initiating action could be in everyone’s ex ante interest and still not justified, right?