"...the [negative] utility monster begins from a baseline status of arbitrarily massive suffering. If we now imagine that any given resource can either make any other person a little happier or else make a much greater impact on relieving the suffering of the negative utility monster, it seems clear that the latter option is the morally better way to go. So everyone must allow that it's possible (not necessarily objectionable) for the interests of a single individual to outweigh everyone else's put together, if the stakes for that individual really are sufficiently high."
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"...the [negative] utility monster begins from a baseline status of arbitrarily massive suffering. If we now imagine that any given resource can either make any other person a little happier or else make a much greater impact on relieving the suffering of the negative utility monster, it seems clear that the latter option is the morally better way to go. So everyone must allow that it's possible (not necessarily objectionable) for the interests of a single individual to outweigh everyone else's put together, if the stakes for that individual really are sufficiently high."