PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ceteris Paribus
14 Mar 2018
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Irrespective of any arbitrary features, as long as someone desires to go on living, they have an equal and substantive interest in living the rest of their lives" however long that may be. If this is the case, then it would be invidious to deny someone healthcare on the arbitrary grounds that they are simply older than someone else. Therefore, age cannot be a relevant factor in deciding hard cases. It seems like the ageist argument is intuitively correct. Fair innings: if we approximate to our average lifespan, we"ve reached all we"re. If someone has reached their fair innings, while their desire to live is still equal to someone who hasn"t, the one who hasn"t should be given preferential consideration in a hard case. These potential problems can, perhaps, be minimized: The idea behind a fair innings" is that there is an indefinite range wherein, if reached, one can be said to have lived a full life".
