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The Utilitarian Approach
How do you trade off the preferences of individuals, who all have different futures that they prefer? That's not a new quest ah, you know, it's thousands of years old. And crudely speaking, the answer is, you you ad em up l right? A, that's what's called the utilitarian approach. We associate bentham and mill with that idea. More recently, harsany whosam was a berkeley economic professor who put a lot of utilitarianism on to an axiomatic footing,. So he siwwa. The kinds of axioms that harsani proposed would probably be accepted as quite reasonable.