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“You don’t know,” said Sissy, half crying, “what a stupid girl I am. All through school hours I make mistakes. Mr. and Mrs. M’Choakumchild call me up, over and over again, regularly to make mistakes. I can’t help them. They seem to come naturally... [T]oday, for instance, Mr. M’Choakumchild was explaining to us about Natural Prosperity... And he said, Now, this schoolroom is a Nation. And in this nation there are fifty millions of money. Isn’t this a prosperous nation? Girl number twenty, isn’t this a prosperous nation, and an’t you in a thriving state?”
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Wolf, C. (1997). Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy; or, Sissy Jupe’s Theory of Social Choice. In: Fotion, N., Heller, J.C. (eds) Contingent Future Persons. Theology and Medicine, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5566-3_9
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