I've thought about this and concluded that this thought experiment ignores the subjective way people experience reality. If a dust speck fell in your own eye, y

I've thought about this and concluded that this thought experiment ignores the subjective way people experience reality. If a dust speck fell in your own eye, you would round that experience down to zero. You wouldn't even remember the event an hour later. I think this subjective experience of reality should be taken into account. As for the part of the argument that dust specks in so many eyes would cause the death of a small fraction of the people, that's far from a given but for the sake of "steelmanning" let's assume that's true. At some point my own ethics place death as a higher utility outcome than prolonged suffering. How many deaths vs how much suffering? That's hard to quantify.