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    It is not the case that Aggregative moral reasoning is vindicated by our considered judgment that saving 1000 lives is better than saving 1, even if no single person bears the compound loss.

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    • 1.Intuitions about large numbers may reflect cognitive limitations rather than moral truth—we struggle to genuinely comprehend 1000 vs 1.
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    • 2.Aggregation licenses harming identifiable individuals for statistical gains, violating the separateness of persons and individual rights.
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    • 3.The moral worth of each person may be incommensurable or lexically prior, making simple numerical aggregation philosophically inappropriate.
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    • 1.Moral value scales with consequences: if one life has value V, then 1000 lives have value 1000V, making aggregation mathematically sound.
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    • 2.Our intuitions consistently favor larger救命 numbers across contexts, suggesting aggregation reflects a deep moral truth, not mere bias.
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    • 3.Non-aggregative views struggle to explain why we'd ever accept trade-offs in medicine, resource allocation, and public policy.
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