1. The Question of Well-being and the Principle of Equality
2. 2. In order to eliminate distress on the part of parents or relatives, one can confine the experiments to abandoned babies.
3. 3. It would not be a good objection to this that there might be other ways of raising the average life-span of one of the tribes which would be less drastic. Why, for example, can't one of the tribes be removed and resettled elsewhere? Granted this point, the question is,giventhat exterminating one of the tribes is the only available means of raising the life-span of the other, does the Principle dictate this course of action?
4. 4. If one applies the Principle across societies, then, assuming lexical priority for the primary desire, it would seem allowable to reduce the people of England to bare susbistence in order to raise the life-span of Nigerians. If it is objected that Honderich allows confining the Principle to one society or nation, on what basis would such a restriction be made? It seems a purelyad hocmeasure.