What DvF says is right. It is nonsense to treat a thousand pinpricks as equivalent to, say, one third degree burn. Assuming, however, that one action will bring a certain amount of pleasure/desire fulfillment to one person, and another action will do the same for two people, it's not incoherent to desire that the second action be done, as we can coherently wish for as many people's preferences to be fulfilled as possible, without aggregating those preferences, assuming that the preferences are of roughly equal importance for each person.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
