The article transfers an argument of Pattanaik and Xu on ranking opportunity sets to tragic choices and the so called numbers problem. We characterize conditions that make the numbers count. This in itself will not resolve any problem relevant to the ongoing ethical debate but should shed some fresh light on it by forcing participants to state specifically which of the assumptions (axioms) should give way for what reasons.
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Ahlert, M., & Kliemt, H. (2013). Necessary and sufficient conditions to make the numbers count. In Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After (pp. 661–668). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35929-3_34
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