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Negative Utility Monsters

Utilitas 33 (4):417 - 421 (2021)

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  1. Are long-lived persons utility monsters?Gregory Ponthiere - forthcoming - Economics and Philosophy:1-19.
    Nozick’s ‘utility monster’ is often regarded as impossible, because one life cannot be better than a large number of other lives. Against that view, I propose a purely marginalist account of utility monster defining the monster by a higher sensitivity of well-being to resources (instead of a larger total well-being), and I introduce the concept of collective utility monster to account for resource predation by a group. Since longevity strengthens the sensitivity of well-being to resources, large groups of long-lived persons (...)
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