ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author sets out the two most pressing objections to it and tries to develop a common strategy for responding to them and so for saving the Quality of Life Strategy. He takes the argument to tell fairly decisively against the Quality of Life Strategy. In ‘The Very Repugnant Conclusion’ Gustaf Arrhenius develops an objection to Tannsjo’s use of the Quality of Life Strategy. Even if the Quality of Life Strategy succeeds in rendering the Repugnant Conclusion acceptable, it doesn’t succeed in rendering the Very Repugnant Conclusion acceptable. This is because the Very Repugnant Conclusion concerns bad lives: lives of negative welfare. The Quality of Life Strategy is silent on comparing populations that involve large numbers of these lives. The defence is based on a modified version of the Quality of Life Strategy.
