steven0461 comments on My main problem with utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 17 April 2009 08:43:52PM * 5 points [-]

You're mostly criticizing preference utilitarianism (with the preferences being uninformed preferences at that), which is far from the only possible utilitarianism and not (I think) held by all that many people here.
It's not a given that only happiness matters (on the face of it, this is false).
"Utilitarianism could be total or average" isn't an argument against the disjunction of total and average utilitarianism.