Critical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnant Conclusion and the Sadistic Conclusion in population ethics. Yet Standard Critical-Range Utilitarianism entails the Weak Sadistic Conclusion, that is, it entails that each population consisting of lives at a bad well-being level is not worse than some population consisting of lives at a good well-being level. In this paper, I defend a version of Critical-Range Utilitarianism which does not entail the Weak Sadistic Conclusion. This is made possible by what I call ‘undistinguishedness’, a fourth category of absolute value in addition to goodness, badness, and neutrality.

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人口价值​​论和第四类绝对值的可能性

临界功利主义是完全功利主义的一种变体，它可以避免人口伦理中的令人反感的结论和虐待性的结论。然而，标准临界范围的功利主义需要弱施虐结论，也就是说，它需要每个由生活在不良幸福水平上的人口组成的人口并不比某些由生活在良好幸福水平上的人口更差。在本文中，我捍卫了一个不包含弱施虐结论的临界范围功利主义版本。这通过我所说的“无区别性”成为可能，这是除了善、恶和中立之外的第四类绝对价值。