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    Challenges→Classical utilitarianism is subject to the repugnant conclusion.

    Therefore, classical utilitarianism must count the large, barely-positive-welfare world as better than the smaller, flourishing world.

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    Parfit (1984) and others argued that classical utilitarianism is subject to the repugnant conclusion: a world with a very large number of individuals whose welfare levels are barely above zero could have a larger sum-total of welfare, and therefore count as better, than a world with a smaller number of very well-off individuals.

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