Liberty, desert, and the market

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Liberty, desert, and the market

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Parental justice and the kids pay view

In a just society, who should be liable for the significant costs associated with creating and raising children? Patrick Tomlin has recently argued that children themselves may be liable on the grounds that they benefit from being raised into independent adults. This view, which Tomlin calls ‘Kids Pay’, depends on the more general principle that a beneficiary can incur an obligation to share in the cost of an essential benefit that the benefactor is responsible for her requiring. I argue in this paper that this principle is both generally false and particularly suspect in the kinds of cases that Tomlin needs it to be true, namely, cases in which a benefactor has created the need to be benefitted to satisfy a self-regarding interest in providing the benefit. In a nutshell, I argue that because parents (a) electively put their children into a needy circumstance for the purpose of (b) satisfying a self-regarding interest in meeting their children’s needs, they lack a legitimate claim against their children to share in its associated costs.For helpful comments and discussion on previous drafts, I am grateful to Serena Olsaretti and Isabella Trifan. Research for this project was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) project on Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenting in a Just Society (Grant number: 648610; grant acryonym: Family Justice)

Parental subsidies: The argument from insurance

This article develops the argument that the state must provide parental subsidies if, and to the extent that, individuals would, under certain specified hypothetical conditions, purchase ‘insurance cover’ that would provide the funds they need for adequate childrearing. I argue that most citizens would sign up to an insurance scheme, in which they receive a guarantee of a means-tested parental subsidy in return for an obligation to pay a progressive income tax to fund the scheme. This argument from insurance bolsters the weaker case that proponents of parental subsidies might offer were they to rely exclusively on arguments from fair play and efficiency. </jats:p

Duties and Rights of Biobank Participants: Principled Autonomy, Consent, Voluntariness and Privacy

In this chapter the notion of principled autonomy is presented, and the perspective enabled by this notion is applied in the field of biobanking. Some consequences of the perspective of principled autonomy on aspects of biobank recruitment are discussed in relation to concepts of voluntariness, consent, and privacy. These discussions aim to focus on the fruitfulness of the notion of principled autonomy in bringing out the interconnectedness of the duties and rights of biobank participants – both in general, and in a context of taking part in a research-based universal health care system in particular