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Comment author: conchis 12 August 2009 02:22:10PM * 3 points [-]

No one has proposed a form of utilitarianism that is free from paradoxes (e.g., the Repugnant Conclusion).

I'd be interested to know what you think of Critical-Level Utilitarianism and Population-Relative Betterness as ways of avoiding the repugnant conclusion and other problems.

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