W1 and W2 include the same quantity of pleasure.
Hedonism supposes that the value of acts can be reduced to the quantity of pleasure and pain they produce.
If higher pleasures are better than lower pleasures, but not because they involve a greater quantity of pleasure, how can this be squared with hedonism?
Pleasures, however, come in many forms: short-term pleasures, such as slaking a thirst, are "kinetic," yet it is "static" pleasures that yield the best cost-benefit ratio for the quantity of pleasure and pain over the course of a life.
It follows that actions, activities, etc. can have only extrinsic value, and it would seem that their value should depend entirely upon the quantity of pleasure that they produce, where quantity is a function of the number of pleasures, their intensity, and their duration.
The first example is an illustration of pleasure in quantity, the second in variety.
We often approach Thanksgiving with the misguided belief that eating large quantities of delicious food will give us a lot of pleasure.
A nerd, on the other hand, is: "A person who gains pleasure from amassing large quantities of knowledge about subjects often too detailed or complicated for most other people to be bothered with".
But what kind of pleasure?
