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    It is not the case that Stuart Rachels and Temkin acknowledge that abandoning transitivity generates what they call 'essentially comparative' value, yet this move simply relocates rather than resolves the underlying tension between quantity and quality of welfare.

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    • 1.If essentially comparative value merely relocates tensions, it provides no practical guidance for actual welfare decisions—it just accepts incoherence.
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    • 2.Rejecting transitivity to preserve quality-quantity distinctions abandons logical consistency without gaining explanatory power about welfare itself.
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    • 1.Transitivity assumes value comparisons follow mathematical logic, but welfare involves incommensurable dimensions that resist linear ordering.
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    • 2.Abandoning transitivity reveals rather than creates the problem: quality-quantity tensions exist independently of which formal framework we adopt.
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    • 3.Essentially comparative value honestly reflects that some welfare trade-offs lack principled resolution, which relocating the tension actually acknowledges.
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