However, their view surely cannot be correct. If Berger and Penna were right then we couldn’t say that giving someone an extra dessert is a smaller benefit than saving someone’s life. Nor could we say that you do more good by saving a million lives than by saving ten. We would have to conclude that nurses who engage in triage – ensuring that doctors don’t spend their time treating mild coughs when they could be treating heart attacks – have no basis for their decisions. But that would be absurd. It might be difficult, both emotionally and practically, to weigh different people’s interests
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