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    It is not the case that The impartial observer argument does not successfully establish utilitarianism as the correct criterion for social welfare

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    • 1.The impartial observer argument requires that individual utilities be measurable in a way compatible with expected utility computation
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    • 2.Not all versions of utilitarianism measure individual utility in a way that can be entered into an expected utility computation
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    • 3.A very risk-averse impartial observer applying expected utility maximization may converge on the maximin criterion rather than utilitarianism
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