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Quotes from Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy — Clark Wolf

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[T]he value of relieving suffering is […] prior to the value of providing additional happiness to the well-off.

Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy (1997)

Classical utilitarians assume [...] that pains and pleasures are commensurable so that they can balance one another out in a grand utilitarian aggregate. But it is far from obvious that pains and pleasures are commensurable in this way, and there is good reason to doubt that the twin utilitarian aims are even compatible-- at least not without further explanation.

Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clark Wolf (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.