A Possible Solution?

So one of the possible solutions is combining total value theory with peak value theory, as I said yesterday. Of course, the problem with this is drawing the line. When does total value theory become more important than peak value theory?

One thought is that you cannot decrease the total value. However, I just immediately disregarded this. If a world is moving from 2 populations both of whom have wellbeings of 10 to 2 populations, one of which has wellbeing 11 and one of which has wellbeing 8, I prefer the second scenario. However, the total wellbeing has decreased (from 20 to 19). So this won't suffice.

Another thought is to say that the total wellbeing cannot go below a certain threshold. But again, I was just thinking of this and I immediately disregard it. Because even if the threshold is something "high" (for the sake of argument, let's say a threshold of 10 is high), it still would not do. You could have one population with 20 and one population with -10, making the total 10 but leaving one population in complete misery.

An idea just struck me that I will attempt to develop tomorrow. It has to deal with adding in a minimum "life worth living" value for each population in a given world.