person-affecting views

Pandemic Ethics: Saving Lives and Replaceability

by Roger Crisp
January 12, 2021

Written by Roger Crisp

Imagine two worlds quite different from our own. In Non-intervention, if a person becomes ill with some life-threatening condition, though their pain may be alleviated, no attempt is made to save their lives. In Maximal-intervention, everything possible is done to save the lives of those with life-threatening conditions.Read More »Pandemic Ethics: Saving Lives and Replaceability

Does it benefit a person to bring them into being?

by Roger Crisp
August 20, 2015August 19, 2015

Over the last four decades or so, philosophers have spent a good deal of time on this somewhat peculiar question. Why? After all, it’s not a question that people ordinarily ask, like ‘Do animals have rights?’ or ‘Is abortion permissible?’.Read More »Does it benefit a person to bring them into being?