Rawls's separateness of persons objection extends to species: moral mathematics that dissolves individuals into aggregate welfare cannot capture what is distinctively lost when a species or ecosystem is permanently annihilated.
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John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
separateness of persons(Invoked by Taurek and Nozick to resist aggregative moral reasoning.)
The principle that individuals are distinct and their harms or interests cannot be pooled or traded off against one another as if they belonged to a single entity.