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I am curious what people's thoughts are on this topic.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/infinite.pdf

Bostrom (and other philosophers) states that cosmologists have determined that the universe is infinite and there is thus an infinite amount of utility or well-being. You can affect only finite quantities. So it is not possible to change the total amount of well-being in the universe. Thus, he argues, this poses a problem for any ethical theory that evaluates aggregated consequences (i.e., tries to maximize well-being). For example, "If pleasure and pain are already infinite, then all possible actions you could take would be morally on a par according to this criterion, for none of them would make any difference to the total amount of pleasure or pain." Obviously this issue is not a problem for non-consequentialist perspectives. I've been giving this argument a lot of thought and am curious what others think.

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