Only Aggregationists Respect the Separateness of Persons Separate people have independent value I often find myself thinking that the conventional wisdom in moral philosophy gets a lot of things backwards. For example, I’ve previously discussed how deontology is much more deeply self-effacing (making objectively right actions, and not just bungled attempts to act rightly, lamentable) than consequentialism. In this post, I’ll explain why I think that only “aggregationist” views—on which five...