The paper doesn’t provide a roadmap for this, but it does indicate what kinds of problems it thinks are more worthy of population ethicists’ time: problems that help us make real-world moral decisions.
“Ethical arguments are widely used in public debate, everyday decision-making, and policy-making. For example, ethical arguments against social inequality and discrimination are common – although not universal, not always successful, and not always correct. Many public decisions affect the world’s future population. Population ethics is therefore an essential foundation for making these decisions properly. It is not simply an academic exercise, and we should not let it be governed by undue attention to one consideration.”
I suppose so. But if you don’t think the article provides new reasons to care less about avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion, then it doesn’t provide new reasons to focus on other moral problems more.
The paper doesn’t provide a roadmap for this, but it does indicate what kinds of problems it thinks are more worthy of population ethicists’ time: problems that help us make real-world moral decisions.
“Ethical arguments are widely used in public debate, everyday decision-making, and policy-making. For example, ethical arguments against social inequality and discrimination are common – although not universal, not always successful, and not always correct. Many public decisions affect the world’s future population. Population ethics is therefore an essential foundation for making these decisions properly. It is not simply an academic exercise, and we should not let it be governed by undue attention to one consideration.”
I suppose so. But if you don’t think the article provides new reasons to care less about avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion, then it doesn’t provide new reasons to focus on other moral problems more.