If you could get people to honestly report the change in utility they would experience, then you could choose the things that would give the largest utility increases. But since you can’t assume honesty it doesn’t work.
I don’t think it’s intuitive that “give me a full account of all of your desires” wont end up working better than “give me an extremely partial picture of your desires”
Is utilitarianism an ordinal voting system?
If you could get people to honestly report the change in utility they would experience, then you could choose the things that would give the largest utility increases. But since you can’t assume honesty it doesn’t work.
So you agree that it’s a voting system.
I don’t think it’s intuitive that “give me a full account of all of your desires” wont end up working better than “give me an extremely partial picture of your desires”