At first, I picked the dust specks as being the preferable answer, and it seemed obvious. What eventually turned me around was when I considered the opposite situation—with GOOD things happening, rather than BAD things. Would I prefer that one person experience 50 years of the most happiness realistic in today’s world, or that 3^^^3 people experience the least good, good thing?
At first, I picked the dust specks as being the preferable answer, and it seemed obvious. What eventually turned me around was when I considered the opposite situation—with GOOD things happening, rather than BAD things. Would I prefer that one person experience 50 years of the most happiness realistic in today’s world, or that 3^^^3 people experience the least good, good thing?
The question has been posed.
Why do you think that there has to be a symmetry between positive and negative utility?