
The Ethics of Prioritizing COVID-19 Vaccination
Jan 19, 2021 argues that the overriding principle guiding who gets inoculated first must be to save the most lives.
Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and founder of the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include
Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan?, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
Jan 19, 2021 argues that the overriding principle guiding who gets inoculated first must be to save the most lives.
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Oct 7, 2020 shows why the decision is not as simple as determining the net number of lives likely to be saved.