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Heavily for most people - due to scope insensitivity. Saving 1 person makes you a hero. Saving a million people does not produce a million times the effect. Thus the size sensitivity.
I am aware that it happens. I'm just saying that it shouldn't. I'm making the case that this intuition does not fit in reflective equilibrium with our others, and should be scrapped.