This function must be individualistic and impartial
Why? Why couldn’t the utility function driving political choices for a whole society be something very different from the equal aggregation of individual well-being?
For ontological reasons! Value is something that consciece attributes to a dead cold indifferent universe. Value is subjetive as mass is inertial. Too fundamental to be discussed, I would say.
You are conflating subjective as in “by subjects” with subjective as in “for subjects”. A subject can have preferences for objectivity, universality, impartiallity, etc.
Why? Why couldn’t the utility function driving political choices for a whole society be something very different from the equal aggregation of individual well-being?
For ontological reasons! Value is something that consciece attributes to a dead cold indifferent universe. Value is subjetive as mass is inertial. Too fundamental to be discussed, I would say.
You are conflating subjective as in “by subjects” with subjective as in “for subjects”. A subject can have preferences for objectivity, universality, impartiallity, etc.
Still is something that a conscient being superimpose over reality. It is not “there”. This as true for our moral as our mathematical constructions.
https://www.amazon.com/Morality-Mathematics-Justin-Clarke-Doane/dp/0198823665
Well this answer to the “individual well being”; the equal weigths are worth discussing. Do you have any suggestion for different weights?