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    The aging population presents ethical challenges. This study critiques justifications for deprioritizing elderly-focused policies, proposing a better consequentialist approach aligning with moral judgments.

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    Area of Science:

    • Bioethics
    • Public Policy
    • Gerontology

    Background:

    • Global population aging poses significant ethical and policy challenges.
    • The 'fair innings' view suggests lower priority for policies benefiting the elderly.
    • Existing philosophical justifications for this view are debated.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To critically examine consequentialist, fairness-based, and contractarian justifications for the fair innings view.
    • To identify implausible implications and inconsistencies with moral intuitions in these justifications.
    • To propose an alternative consequentialist justification that better aligns with moral judgments.

    Main Methods:

    • Philosophical analysis of ethical theories.
    • Evaluation of arguments supporting the fair innings view.
    • Development of a revised consequentialist framework.

    Main Results:

    • Consequentialist, fairness-based, and contractarian justifications for the fair innings view have significant flaws.
    • These justifications lead to outcomes that conflict with common moral intuitions.
    • A revised consequentialist approach offers a more plausible ethical framework.

    Conclusions:

    • Current justifications for deprioritizing elderly-focused policies are ethically inadequate.
    • A refined consequentialist perspective can better reconcile policy decisions with moral considerations.
    • Further development of ethical frameworks is needed to address the challenges of population aging.