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Comment author: buybuydandavis 19 November 2013 07:59:21AM -1 points [-]

For any population of people, you can spread people's happiness in a more egalitarian way, while keeping the same average happiness, and this makes things no worse.

It is worse for the people whose happiness you've spread to others.

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