Then I realized that I was adding follow-on utility to torture (inability to do much else due to the pain) but not the dust specks (car crashes etc due to the distraction).
Perhaps a better analogy would be dust specks that are only slightly distracting, detracting from whatever you were doing but not enough to cause you to make tangible mistakes, versus torturing somebody who’s flying a plane at the time.
In other words, this “follow-on utility” should be separated from opportunity costs, shouldn’t it?
Perhaps a better analogy would be dust specks that are only slightly distracting, detracting from whatever you were doing but not enough to cause you to make tangible mistakes, versus torturing somebody who’s flying a plane at the time.
In other words, this “follow-on utility” should be separated from opportunity costs, shouldn’t it?