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    It is not the case that Comparativism is compatible with multiple theories of intrinsic value, not just intrinsic hedonism.

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    • 1.Comparativism's core comparative structure presupposes that well-being admits of scalar measurement across states, which hedonism uniquely supports.
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    • 2.Objective list and desire-satisfaction theories generate incommensurable goods that resist the cross-state quantitative comparisons comparativism requires.
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    • 3.A theory that structurally depends on cardinal welfare comparisons is not genuinely neutral between theories that deny such comparisons are possible.
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    • 1.Fred Feldman's deprivationism shows that comparativism requires identifying a baseline subject of comparison, and what counts as 'the same subject' varies across value theories.
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    • 2.If personal identity conditions differ between hedonist and preferentialist accounts, then comparativism yields different and incompatible verdicts depending on which theory is paired with it.
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    • 3.A framework that produces structurally divergent results under different value pairings is not genuinely neutral but rather differentially compatible with those theories.
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    • 1.Comparativists can accept intrinsic hedonism, but need not.
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    • 2.Comparativists could pair comparativism with a preferentialist view that desire fulfillment is intrinsically good and desire thwarting is intrinsically bad.
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    • 3.Comparativism is neutral on the issue of what counts as intrinsic goods and evils.
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