A Modern Elitism, part 1

My first goal is to work through my own ethical theory. Over the next few weeks I'm going to post ideas, explanations, refutations, etc. regarding my own version of elitism, an ethical theory.

The primary aspect of elitism is that it takes into account Peak Value for wellbeing (wellbeing meaning that generic term to which philosophers in value theory refer when they speak of such things as happiness or wealth, but remembering that it is not limited to these things) over Total Value. For example, for elitism, having two subjects that have a wellbeing of 8 and 2 respectively is better than having two subjects with a wellbeing of 6 each. The math shows that the second set of subjects has a higher total wellbeing, but the elitist would pick the first set of subjects since there is a higher peak value (that value being 8, which is higher than 6). This gives rise to some startling problems, which I will discuss next time.