There's no way of calculating utility, period. The issue is more substantively that suffering is relative, and that the elimination of suffering is also the elimination of happiness.
the elimination of suffering is also the elimination of happiness
Please explain in more detail. The Buddhist part of my brain just had a spit-take upon reading that.
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