A New Counterexample to Prioritarianism. Ord, T. Utilitas, 27(3):298–302, September, 2015.
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Prioritarianism is the moral view that a fixed improvement in someone's well-being matters more the worse off they are. Its supporters argue that it best captures our intuitions about unequal distributions of well-being. I show that prioritarianism sometimes recommends acts that will make things more unequal while simultaneously lowering the total well-being and making things worse for everyone ex ante. Intuitively, there is little to recommend such acts and I take this to be a serious counterexample for prioritarianism.
@article{ord_new_2015,
	title = {A {New} {Counterexample} to {Prioritarianism}},
	volume = {27},
	issn = {0953-8208, 1741-6183},
	url = {http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/new-counterexample-to-prioritarianism/0FA5067E0FBDD805BA206A200DCC09FD},
	doi = {10.1017/S0953820815000059},
	abstract = {Prioritarianism is the moral view that a fixed improvement in someone's well-being matters more the worse off they are. Its supporters argue that it best captures our intuitions about unequal distributions of well-being. I show that prioritarianism sometimes recommends acts that will make things more unequal while simultaneously lowering the total well-being and making things worse for everyone ex ante. Intuitively, there is little to recommend such acts and I take this to be a serious counterexample for prioritarianism.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2019-07-01},
	journal = {Utilitas},
	author = {Ord, Toby},
	month = sep,
	year = {2015},
	pages = {298--302},
}

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