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Reminds me of this great SMBC comic -https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03 We need to be careful of this ki

• perl4ever 7y ago
  It's been a long time since I took a course in philosophy, and all I recalled was John Stuart Mill being associated with utilitarianism. Looking at his Wikipedia page, it appears that his idea of the utility associated with pleasure was independent of the specific person. If X is the amount of pleasure humanity gets from something, and Y is the number of people that exist, then the pleasure an individual is assumed to get is X/Y. If I understand correctly. If someone were to abuse the concept of utility by considering it to differ between people, it seems to me a lot more likely that they would say something like "I get a unit of utility from this candy bar, but many other people do/would not, so I don't need to share with them", rather than "I get millions of units of utility from this candy bar and others only get a normal amount".