I don’t believe egalitarianism has value in itself. Tell me, would you rather get all your wealth continuously throughout the year, or get a disproportionate amount on Christmas?
If wealth is evenly distributed, it will lead to more total happiness, but I don’t see any advantage in happiness being evenly distributed.
I don’t see how your comment relates to this post.
Perhaps it could be framed in terms of the utility of psychological comfort. Suppose that one person is tortured to avoid 3^^^3 people getting dust specks. Won’t almost every one of those 3^^^3 people empathize with the tortured person enough to feel a pang of discomfort more uncomfortable than a dust speck?
I don’t believe egalitarianism has value in itself. Tell me, would you rather get all your wealth continuously throughout the year, or get a disproportionate amount on Christmas?
If wealth is evenly distributed, it will lead to more total happiness, but I don’t see any advantage in happiness being evenly distributed.
I don’t see how your comment relates to this post.
Perhaps it could be framed in terms of the utility of psychological comfort. Suppose that one person is tortured to avoid 3^^^3 people getting dust specks. Won’t almost every one of those 3^^^3 people empathize with the tortured person enough to feel a pang of discomfort more uncomfortable than a dust speck?
Only if they find out that the tortured person exists, which would be an event that’s not in the problem statement.