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They may be happier, but they are fewer. What good is mean happiness versus sum happiness in the grand scheme of things?
by hanoz 9y ago
They may be happier, but they are fewer. What good is mean happiness versus sum happiness in the grand scheme of things?
- marchenko 9y agoThe Repugnant Conclusion may be of interest: “For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose existence, if other things are equal, would be better even though its members have lives that are barely worth living” (Parfit 1984) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/