My utility function doesn’t add the way you seem to think it does. A googolplex of dusty eyes has the same tiny negative utility as one dusty eye as far as I’m concerned. Honestly. How could anyone possibly care how many people’s eyes get dusty. It doesn’t matter. Torture matters a lot. But that’s not really even the point. The point is that a bad thing happening to n people isn’t n times worse than a bad thing happening to one person.
My utility function doesn’t add the way you seem to think it does. A googolplex of dusty eyes has the same tiny negative utility as one dusty eye as far as I’m concerned. Honestly. How could anyone possibly care how many people’s eyes get dusty. It doesn’t matter. Torture matters a lot. But that’s not really even the point. The point is that a bad thing happening to n people isn’t n times worse than a bad thing happening to one person.