TY - JOUR
T1 - Nudging for others’ sake: An ethical analysis of the legitimacy of nudging healthcare workers to accept influenza immunization
AU - van den Hoven, Mariette
N1 - Funding Information: This paper was funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschapsbeoefening (NWO) project ‘Welfare Improvement through Nudging Knowledge’ (WINK). Thanks for comments on draft versions from the practical philosophy colloquium members of the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University. Funding Information: This paper was funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschapsbeoefening (NWO) project ?Welfare Improvement through Nudging Knowledge? (WINK). Thanks for comments on draft versions from the practical philosophy colloquium members of the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Bioethics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - A core idea underlying nudging is that it helps individuals to achieve their own goals, yet many nudges actually aim at collective goals or specifically target the benefit of others. An example is nudging healthcare workers to be vaccinated against influenza. I distinguish between self-regarding nudges, which primarily benefit the nudgee, and other-regarding nudges, which mainly benefit others, and argue that the default justificatory reason to legitimize self-regarding nudges, namely the ‘as judged by themselves’ standard, does not apply and that we need to look for other justifications. I examine several possible moral justifications to support strong other-regarding nudges, namely beneficence, the harm principle and solidarity.
AB - A core idea underlying nudging is that it helps individuals to achieve their own goals, yet many nudges actually aim at collective goals or specifically target the benefit of others. An example is nudging healthcare workers to be vaccinated against influenza. I distinguish between self-regarding nudges, which primarily benefit the nudgee, and other-regarding nudges, which mainly benefit others, and argue that the default justificatory reason to legitimize self-regarding nudges, namely the ‘as judged by themselves’ standard, does not apply and that we need to look for other justifications. I examine several possible moral justifications to support strong other-regarding nudges, namely beneficence, the harm principle and solidarity.
KW - beneficence
KW - harm
KW - influenza immunization of healthcare personnel
KW - nudging
KW - other-regarding nudges
KW - solidarity
KW - ‘as judged by themselves’ standard
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12819
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12819
M3 - Article
C2 - 33051889
SN - 0269-9702
VL - 35
SP - 143
EP - 150
JO - Bioethics
JF - Bioethics
IS - 2
ER -