The more general problem is that utilitarianism by arithmetic keeps giving apparently weird and nonsensical results. I suspect it’s an error to say “the apparently weird and nonsensical result must be of vast importance” rather than “perhaps this approach doesn’t work very well”.
The more general problem is that utilitarianism by arithmetic keeps giving apparently weird and nonsensical results. I suspect it’s an error to say “the apparently weird and nonsensical result must be of vast importance” rather than “perhaps this approach doesn’t work very well”.