The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life

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Expanding the moral circle: Inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard (2009, methodology): “Philosophers and bioethicists have long pondered whether entities such as fetuses and people in permanent vegetative states deserve the same moral treatment as fully functioning human beings (McMahan, 2002).”
Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist (2009, background): “I have defended this view in McMahan (2002).”
Minds without spines: Evolutionarily inclusive animal ethics (2020, background): “For example, while a painless death is a harm to persons because (e.g.) it frustrates their interest in a valuable future, death may not be a harm to animals who have no such future-directed interests (McMahan 2002).”