NihilCredo comments on Metacontrarian Metaethics - Less Wrong
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Indeed. More abstractly: pleasure and suffering aren't so nice as to neatly add and multiply like pretty little scalars.
Even if you wish to talk about "utils/utilons" - it is by no means obvious that ten dust specks are worth exactly ten times as many (negative) utils as one dust speck.