This paper studies the relationship between promoting people's welfare and respecting their autonomy of choice under risk. I highlight a conflict between these two aims. Given compelling assumptions, welfarists end up disregarding people's unanimous preference, even when everyone involved is entirely rational and only concerned with maximizing their own welfare. Non‐welfarist theories of social choice are then considered. They are shown to face difficulties, too: either they fail to respect the value of welfare in at least one important sense, or they end up prioritizing different people's welfare differently in non‐risky choices, on the basis of their attitudes to risk, which are intuitively irrelevant in this context.

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福利和自治面临风险


本文研究了促进人民福祉与尊重风险下选择自主权之间的关系。我强调这两个目标之间的冲突。鉴于令人信服的假设，福利主义者最终会无视人们的一致偏好，即使每个参与者都是完全理性的并且只关心最大化自己的福利。然后考虑社会选择的非福利主义理论。他们也面临着困难：要么他们在至少一种重要意义上没有尊重福利的价值，要么他们最终根据他们对风险的态度，在非风险选择中以不同的方式优先考虑不同人的福利，这在这种情况下直观上是无关的。