 Here, the utilitarian says that, if the number of other people exceeds ten, then we should treat the others, as this maximises total well-being. Parfit argues that “most of us would reject this utilitarian claim, believing instead that we ought to save Blue from her great ordeal. We might even believe that we ought to save Blue from her 100 days of pain rather than saving any number of such other people from their much smaller burden of 10 days of pain” (Parfit 2011, volume 2, pp. 196–7).