That's reversed. The number of people can be mapped linearly, but not the intensity of the pain. (Intuitively, it's hard to say saving 100 people is 100x as go

That's reversed. The number of people can be mapped linearly, but not the intensity of the pain. (Intuitively, it's hard to say saving 100 people is 100x as good as saving 1, because we can't have 100 best friends, but it doesn't affect the math at all)