I would certainly prefer the outcome (1 person dies, everyone else feels really bad about it) to the outcome (2 people die, everyone else doesn’t feel bad). I think most people would in this experiment, with a small group of survivors. But there exists a number of people involved (I’ll say it’s smaller than 3^^^3) so that I would prefer outcome A to outcome B.
Therefore, considerations beside death could theoretically be significant, and utilitarianism can’t be simplified to body count.
I would certainly prefer the outcome (1 person dies, everyone else feels really bad about it) to the outcome (2 people die, everyone else doesn’t feel bad). I think most people would in this experiment, with a small group of survivors. But there exists a number of people involved (I’ll say it’s smaller than 3^^^3) so that I would prefer outcome A to outcome B.
Therefore, considerations beside death could theoretically be significant, and utilitarianism can’t be simplified to body count.