TY - JOUR AU - Żuradzki, Tomasz PY - 2017/03/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Normative Implications of the Preference for Identified People (in Polish) JF - Diametros JA - Diametros VL - 0 IS - 51 SE - Equality in Healthcare DO - 10.13153/diam.51.2017.1034 UR - https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/1034 SP - 113-136 AB - The results of empirical research show that people prefer to help identified individuals rather than unidentified ones. This preference has an important influence on many private and public decisions, for example concerning vaccination or the distribution of healthcare resources. The aim of this article is to define the terms: “identified”, “unidentified”, “statistical”, and then to analyze three philosophical arguments concerning the normative implications of this preference: 1) contractualism <em>ex ante</em>; 2) fair distribution of chances and risks; 3) principles regarding the concentration of good effects and the distribution of bad effects. I will demonstrate that these arguments, which are related to interesting philosophical problems, such as counterfactuals, are not convincing. ER -