 But this is puzzling. It would appear that any attention we pay to the moral worth of the objects of our beneficence is simply given the general consequences such beneficence may produce. And hence it would appear that the “moral Importance of Persons” is not actually “compensating” numbers at all. Rather, the moral importance of persons is or perhaps could be an important causal factor in the overall production of happiness or the overall distribution of happiness, but is not itself a compensatory axiological variable. But this is also puzzling, insofar as Hutcheson seems to treat the moral importance of persons as such a variable twice. At this point Hutcheson’s embrace, or lack thereof, of luckism must be left as an interpretive puzzle.