Was lockdown life worth living?
Monash Bioeth Rev
; 40(1): 40-61, 2022 Jun.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1749953
ABSTRACT
Lockdowns in Australia have been strict and lengthy. Policy-makers appear to have given the preservation of quantity of lives strong priority over the preservation of quality of lives. But thought-experiments in population ethics suggest that this is not always the right priority. In this paper, I'll discuss both negative impacts on quantity of lives caused by the lockdowns themselves, including an increase in domestic violence, and negative impacts on quality of lives caused by lockdowns, in order to raise the question of whether we each had reason to choose quantity over quality in our own lives in a way that would justify the lockdowns we had.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Domestic Violence
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Oceania
Language:
English
Journal:
Monash Bioeth Rev
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S40592-022-00155-7
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