Sentence examples for repugnant conclusions from inspiring English sources

This conclusion seems much harder to accept than the Repugnant Conclusions.

Parfit calls this the Repugnant Conclusion.

This reductio ad Duggar Family was first articulated by the British philosopher Derek Parfit; it is known in academic circles as the Repugnant Conclusion.

(Though the obvious delight that the Duggars, parents and children alike, seem to take in their existence makes them a relatively weak example of the Repugnant Conclusion).

To escape the Repugnant Conclusion, all one need do is reject the conceit that the moral life is a simple matter of doing your happiness arithmetic correctly, figuring out the most utility-maximizing good and pursuing it to the maximum extent and to the exclusion of any other end.

But it immediately generates – for example – the repugnant conclusion (Parfit 1987, 381 90; see also repugnant conclusion).

Even if we were to accept the Repugnant Conclusion, we are not forced to accept the Very Repugnant Conclusion.

Thus, the final conclusion is that Z is better than A, which is the Repugnant Conclusion.

When confronted with the Repugnant Conclusion, many share the view that the conclusion is highly counterintuitive.

When applied to population ethics, it has the potential to avoid Parfit's "Repugnant Conclusion".

It seems then that the Repugnant Conclusion is very hard to get around.