What you describe is average utilitarianism and it has many known very negative failure modes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitarianism#

What you describe is average utilitarianism and it has many known very negative failure modes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitarianism#Average_utilitarianism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitaria... This also ignores a very basic premise in medicine: nobody will willingly go to a doctor they do not believe has their best interests in mind. It’s one of the reasons the Hippocratic oath exists.