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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”
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In an ethic seminar he was asked to weigh the benefit of a slight improvement in quality of life for millions of people against risk of great harm. He didn't get why extremely unhappy person wasn't allowed to kill herself before she messed up her average. The repugnant conclusion said that it was possible to justify decreasing a population's quality of life if you made the population bigger.
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