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The Two-Tier Problem
1Uehiro Oxford Institute, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore.
Abstract:
A number of philosophers argue for a Two-Tier View: that there is some difference between individual-affecting and non-individual-affecting choices. But it is challenging to know the degree of moral difference, and to determine for some cases into which category they fall. I refer to this as the "Two Tier Problem." In this paper, I develop and defend a "Two-Tier Deontic View." On that view, the higher tier applies to a subset of individual-affecting cases. We have stronger reason to bring about an individual-affecting rather than a non-individual-affecting benefit, but only in cases where we have agent-relative duties to the individuals so affected. In other cases (and I argue that this applies to most policy decisions affecting reproduction) there is no moral difference between individual- and non-individual-affecting choices.
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