Opposing Laws with Religious Reasons

Kugelberg, Henrik D.

doi:10.1111/josp.12363

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“…19 Liberals of many traditions recognize that life plans are of paramount importance to citizens. Kugelberg (2021) notes that Isaiah Berlin's conception of freedom recognized weightings for different freedoms. The kinds of freedoms that matter are those “that have special importance for people's life plans.…”

Section: The Intergenerational Compensation Argumentmentioning

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“…Everyone will want to live their lives in a certain way. In order to pursue a life plan, whatever it is, we must be free to make certain choices” (Kugelberg, 2021: 138). Among the most important choices related to pursuing one's life plans include education, the pursuit of romantic relationships, and employment, among others.…”

Section: The Intergenerational Compensation Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lockdowns and the ethics of intergenerational compensation

Kalewold

2023

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

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Lockdowns were a morally and medically appropriate anti-contagion policy to stop the spread of Covid. However, lockdowns came with considerable costs. Specifically, lockdowns imposed harms and losses upon the young in order to benefit the elderly, who were at the highest risk of severe illness and death from Covid. This represented a shifting of the (epidemiological) burden of Covid for the elderly to a systemic burden of lockdown upon the young. This article argues that even if lockdowns were a morally permissible response to Covid, the harms and losses they imposed on the young ground a claim of compensation. I defend an intergenerational compensation argument that defends a claim for an egalitarian intergenerational transfer to compensate the young for the harms of lockdown.

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Section: The Intergenerational Compensation Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Intergenerational Compensation Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%