So there presumably is a particular “ideal” paperclip size (i.e. you want it to be as small as possible while still capable of holding a few pieces of paper together. I get the sense that a clip that can hold three papers together has the same ethical weight as a clip that can hold 10 or 40?)
That’s about right. The “true” ethically necessary number of sheets a paperclip needs to fasten is a complicated matter, but it’s certainly less than 10. (There’s a related fuzzy issue about how large a tolerance band around standard width paper is acceptable.)
So there presumably is a particular “ideal” paperclip size (i.e. you want it to be as small as possible while still capable of holding a few pieces of paper together. I get the sense that a clip that can hold three papers together has the same ethical weight as a clip that can hold 10 or 40?)
That’s about right. The “true” ethically necessary number of sheets a paperclip needs to fasten is a complicated matter, but it’s certainly less than 10. (There’s a related fuzzy issue about how large a tolerance band around standard width paper is acceptable.)