THE PRIORITY VIEW: A DEFENSE AGAINST OTSUKA AND VOORHOEVE.

According to the Priority View, benefiting the worse off matters more than benefiting the better off, this being the case simply because the worse off are worse than how they could otherwise have been, not because they worse than others are or could have been. In recent literature, Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve have argued that the Priority View fails to capture a shift in the moral considerations that underpin our decisions on moral distribution in intra-personal and inter-personal cases, and that it fails to do so for neglecting the relational but morally significant fact known as the separateness of persons. The present piece will target this line of criticism. It is far from clear that the aforementioned shift actually exists. And even if it does, the Priority View could still accommodate the moral importance of the separateness of persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]