  The Millian View is also implausible: what kind of life an individual with an enhanced status will lead surely matters. My life is better than the life of even a very satisfied pig, but if my life were filled with enough pain and misery, and with extremely limited prospects, it arguably would be worse. Indeed, the Millian view is even too extreme for Mill, who agrees that some people’s lives are filled with “unhappiness so extreme” that they would be better off exchanging “their lot for almost any other, however undesirable in their own eyes” (1979 [1861], 9).