According to positive egalitarianism, not only do relations of inequality have negative value, as negative egalitarians claim, but relations of equality also have positive value. The egalitarian value of a population is a function of both pairwise relations of inequality (negative) and pairwise relations of equality (positive). Positive and negative egalitarianism diverge, especially in different-number cases. Hence, an investigation of positive egalitarianism might shed new light on the vexed topic of population ethics and our duties to future generations. We shall here, in light of some recent criticism, further develop the idea of giving positive value to equal relations.

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重新考虑积极的平等主义

根据积极平均主义，不仅不平等关系具有消极价值，正如消极平等主义者所声称的那样，平等关系也具有积极价值。人口的平等主义价值是不平等的成对关系（负）和平等的成对关系（正）的函数。积极和消极平均主义分歧，特别是在不同数量的情况下。因此，对积极平均主义的调查可能会为人口伦理这个令人烦恼的话题以及我们对后代的责任提供新的启示。在这里，我们将根据最近的一些批评，进一步发展赋予平等关系积极价值的思想。