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But there is a second aspect to this worry about
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aggregating values and preferences.
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Why should we weigh all preferences that people have
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without assessing whether they're good preferences or bad preferences?
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Shouldn't we distinguish between higher pleasures and lower pleasures?
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Now, part of the appeal of not making any qualitative distinctions
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about the worth of people's preferences,
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part of the appeal is that it is nonjudgmental and egalitarian.
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The Benthamite utilitarian says everybody's preferences count
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and they count regardless of what people want,
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regardless of what makes different people happy.
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For Bentham, all that matters, you'll remember,