Why do we save the larger number? Because we do give equal weight to saving each. Each counts for one. That is why more count for more.
Derek Parfit, ‘Innumerate Ethics’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer, 1978), p. 301
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James Fishkin
Throghout the modern world, equality is generally prescribed, yet inequality is generally practiced.
James Fishkin, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family, New Haven, 1983, p. 47