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Published Online: 25 December 2007

Sufficiency, Justice, and the Pursuit of Health Extension

Publication: Rejuvenation Research
Volume 10, Issue Number 4

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According to one account of distributive justice, called the Sufficiency View, justice only requires that we bring everyone above some critical threshold of well-being and nothing more. This account of justice no doubt explains why some people believe it is unfair to invest scarce public funds into combating aging. In this paper I show why the sufficiency view is wrong. Furthermore, I argue that the real injustice occurs when we disparage or ignore all potential avenues of extending healthy living. We must be both ambitious and imaginative in our attitudes towards health extension.

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cover image Rejuvenation Research
Rejuvenation Research
Volume 10Issue Number 4December 2007
Pages: 513 - 520
PubMed: 17979499

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Published online: 25 December 2007
Published in print: December 2007
Published ahead of print: 2 November 2007

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Colin Farrelly
Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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