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    If one activity is correctly valued more than another, it... — Carmelics
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    If one activity is correctly valued more than another, it must be because the first produces more numerous, intense, or durable pleasures.

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    • 1.Activities have no intrinsic comparative worth.
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    • 2.The only basis for preferring one activity over another under hedonism is the quantity of pleasure produced.
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    • 1.Mill himself distinguishes 'higher' from 'lower' pleasures based on qualitative differences recognized by competent judges, not quantitative aggregation.
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    • 2.If qualitative superiority is irreducible to quantity, then correct valuation can track quality of pleasure independent of numerousness, intensity, or duration.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's ideal utilitarianism holds that beauty, knowledge, and friendship have intrinsic value independent of the pleasure they produce.
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    • 2.If non-hedonic goods can be correctly valued more than pleasure-producing alternatives, then quantity of pleasure cannot be the sole basis for comparative valuation.
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    Hedonism implies that the mental state of pleasure is the only thing having intrinsic value (and the mental state of pain is the only intrinsic evil). All other things have only extrinsic value; they have value just insofar as they bring about, mediately or directly, intrinsic value (or disvalue). It follows that actions, activities, etc. can have only extrinsic value, and it would seem that their value should depend entirely upon the quantity of pleasure that they produce, where quantity is a f
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