The Repugnant Conclusion has proven to be one of the most durable and powerful conundrums in normative ethics. Through the comparison of different population and utility patterns, Derek Parfit has stressed the difficulty of producing a coherent moral theory that avoids counterintuitive conclusions.
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Cowen, T. (2004). Resolving The Repugnant Conclusion. In: Tännsjö, T., Ryberg, J. (eds) The Repugnant Conclusion. Library Of Ethics And Applied Philosophy, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2473-3_6
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