Kalewold, KH orcid.org/0000-0001-7113-8670 (2023) Lockdowns and the ethics of intergenerational compensation. Politics, Philosophy and Economics. ISSN 1470-594X
Abstract
Lockdowns were a morally and medically appropriate anti-contagion policy to stop the spread of Covid. However, lockdowns came with considerable costs. Specifically, lockdowns imposed harms and losses upon the young in order to benefit the elderly, who were at the highest risk of severe illness and death from Covid. This represented a shifting of the (epidemiological) burden of Covid for the elderly to a systemic burden of lockdown upon the young. This article argues that even if lockdowns were a morally permissible response to Covid, the harms and losses they imposed on the young ground a claim of compensation. I defend an intergenerational compensation argument that defends a claim for an egalitarian intergenerational transfer to compensate the young for the harms of lockdown.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | lockdowns; COVID-19; intergenerational justice; compensation; wealth tax |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2023 13:33 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2023 13:33 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1470594X231178497 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201035 |
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