Caledonian2 comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 29 January 2008 02:42:35PM 0 points [-]

If you don't accept the additivity of harm, you accept that for any harm x, there is some number of people y where 2^y people suffering x harm is the same welfare wise as y people suffering x harm.

No. I can imagine non-additive harm evaluation systems where that is not the case.

Even in the limited subset of systems where that IS the case, so what?