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Are early-age limits morally worse than late-age ones?

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Gosseries, Axel [UCL]

Some want to defend the view that we should get rid of all age criteria, systematically seeking substitute criteria or simply dropping the restrictions at stake. Others may rather want to double-check, with an open mind, whether we do not have reasons to stick to age criteria in some cases. The point of this note is to explore the implications of combining what I consider to be two of the best possible justifications for using at least some age criteria in social life. To my mind, two of the best justifications (if any) for still using age criteria consist of (1) relying on the value of chronological age as a proxy indicator of current and future abilities and (2) its value as a proxy indicator of past opportunities, in connection with equality over entire lives

Document type Document de travail (Working Paper)
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2023
Language Anglais
Number of pages 6 pages
Collection Discrimination on the basis of chronological age. November 2022 Workshop Proceedings and Working Papers - Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program Working Paper Series 001
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
Keywords complete life view ; age discrimination ; justice
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Bibliographic reference Gosseries, Axel. Are early-age limits morally worse than late-age ones?. Discrimination on the basis of chronological age. November 2022 Workshop Proceedings and Working Papers ; Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program Working Paper Series 001 (2023) 6 pages
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/274367