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    Challenges→Negative utilitarianism implies that a government should provide free contraceptives, because doing so reduces pain and other disvalues.

    If the foundational logic of negative utilitarianism demands extinction, contraception policy cannot be derived from it without invoking the same reductio that undermines the framework.

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    Contraception policy(ethics and practical philosophy)
    Rules or guidelines about birth control and preventing pregnancies, which is discussed here because negative utilitarianism raises questions about whether creating new people is ethically necessary.
    Foundational logic(philosophy generally)
    The basic rules and principles that a theory or system is built on—the starting assumptions that everything else depends on.
    Undermines the framework(philosophy generally)
    Weakens or destroys the credibility of a theory by showing that it has serious logical problems or flaws.
    derived from(describing where ideas come from)
    Comes originally from or originates in; traces back to as its source.
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    (Proposed as a response to the counterintuitive implications of classic utilitarianism for population policy.)
    The view that an act is morally wrong if and only if its consequences contain more pain or other disvalues than an available alternative, with no positive weight given to pleasures or other goods.
    reductio(as used in logic)
    Short for 'reductio ad absurdum'—a way of proving something is wrong by showing that believing it leads to ridiculous or impossible conclusions.

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