Editing Mere addition paradox (section)

== Variants ==
The '''[[very repugnant conclusion]]'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arrhenius |first=Gustaf |date=2024-07-12 |orig-date=2003 |title=The Very Repugnant Conclusion |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/ARRTVR}}</ref> is a property of theories of population ethics that is a stronger version of the repugnant conclusion. It states that according to some ethical theories, for any population where everyone has very high well-being, there exists a better population consisting of two groups: a significant number of people with very negative well-being, and a much larger number of people having barely positive welfare.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Buldolfson |first=Mark |last2=Spears |first2=Dean |date=2020 |title=Why the Repugnant Conclusion is Inescapable |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Why-the-Repugnant-Conclusion-is-Inescapable-Budolfson-Spears/1e3b8fc2f088b6e4e41b14690a347c28a801419c |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=Semantic Scholar}}</ref>