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Douglas Maclean Different perspectives on saving lives article In “Weighing Lives”, John Broome defends a very weak consequentialist account of the value of saving lives. This paper challenges the commitments of this kind of account and describes some reasons for saving lives that would appeal to a non-consequentialist.

Different perspectives on saving lives

Douglas Maclean

Economics and Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 1, 2007, pp. 89–96

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In “Weighing Lives”, John Broome defends a very weak consequentialist account of the value of saving lives. This paper challenges the commitments of this kind of account and describes some reasons for saving lives that would appeal to a non-consequentialist.

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