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The Age-Indifference Principle and Equality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

JOHN HARRIS
Affiliation:
John Harris, D.Phil., is the Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics, Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Extract

The question of whether or not either elderly people or those whose life expectancy is short have commensurately reduced claims on their fellows, have, in short, fewer or less powerful rights than others, is of vital importance but is one that has seldom been adequately examined. Despite ringing proclamations of justice and equality for all, the fact is that most societies discriminate between citizens on the basis both of age and life expectancy.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: OPEN FORUM
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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