
John Broome on Weighing Lives
Philosophy Bites
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The Importance of Uncertainty in Decision Making
In a real life case, it's not simple at all. You don't know at the point when you make the decision how things are likely to turn out. The uncertainty is a difficult, complicating feature. We should look at the average goodness of the things that might happen if we do one thing and compare those with the Average Goodness of Things That Might Happen IfWe Do Another.
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