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Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations

Although a safe, effective, and licensed coronavirus vaccine does not yet exist, there is already controversy over how it ought to be allocated. Justice is clearly at stake, but it is unclear what justice requires in the international distribution of a scarce vaccine during a pandemic. Many are condemning ‘vaccine nationalism’ as an obstacle to equitable global distribution. We argue that limited national partiality in allocating vaccines will be a component of justice rather than an obstacle to it. For there are role-based and community-embedded responsibilities to take care of one’s own, which constitute legitimate moral reasons for some identity-related prioritisation.

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By Malvika|2020-12-17T12:17:19+00:00December 17th, 2020|News-Letters|Comments Off on Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations

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