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Now, there's different ways of working out the details of
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the hedonist view.
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It's not, after all,
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as though all pleasures count equally or all pains count equally.
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The pain of stubbing your toe obviously doesn't count
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for nearly as much as the pain of a migraine,
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which doesn't count nearly as the pain of being tortured.
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And so we might need to work out various,
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more complicated, formulas here,
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where we multiply the pain times
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its duration and take into account its intensity,
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get the sheer quantity of pain that way.