i.e. you can want that, but it's a want on the level of "i want preference utilitarianism"
i tend to disagree w critiques of utilitarianism that take the form "no use a different function than the sum"
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like, i think the function that comes closest is probably something like the sum. but it isn't a function
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Sum isn't close, because sum is unbounded, and thus expected value can be undefined.
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