This seems almost exactly like the repugnant conclusion. Taken to extremes, intuition disagrees with logic. When that happens, it’s usually the worse for intuition.
I’m not a utilitarian, but I find the repugnant conclusion impossible to reject if you are.
If you want chose what is good for everyone, there’s little argument what that is in those cases.
And if we’re talking about what’s good for everyone, that’s got to be a linear sum of what’s good for each someone. If the sum is nonlinear, who exactly is worth less than the others? This leads to the repugnant conclusion and your conclusion here.
Other definitions of “good for everyone” seem to always mean “what I idiosyncratically prefer for everyone else but me”.
This seems almost exactly like the repugnant conclusion. Taken to extremes, intuition disagrees with logic. When that happens, it’s usually the worse for intuition.
I’m not a utilitarian, but I find the repugnant conclusion impossible to reject if you are.
If you want chose what is good for everyone, there’s little argument what that is in those cases.
And if we’re talking about what’s good for everyone, that’s got to be a linear sum of what’s good for each someone. If the sum is nonlinear, who exactly is worth less than the others? This leads to the repugnant conclusion and your conclusion here.
Other definitions of “good for everyone” seem to always mean “what I idiosyncratically prefer for everyone else but me”.