Thanks for the reply! I think you are not missing anything: if there’s total net positive/negative value then, necessarily, there’s average net positive/negative value, and viceversa. But average net negative value can be lower than total net negative due to some individuals having much better lives than others. Some axiologies care for average, some for total, so it would be interesting to have separate measurements of each.
Thanks for the reply! I think you are not missing anything: if there’s total net positive/negative value then, necessarily, there’s average net positive/negative value, and viceversa. But average net negative value can be lower than total net negative due to some individuals having much better lives than others. Some axiologies care for average, some for total, so it would be interesting to have separate measurements of each.