Reply to Masadi continued:

OK, so what you are saying is that preferences of the people should be changed in a way that they are completely aligned within the group. And yes I agree that such preference alignment has been advocated by God, prophets, Marx and Advertisers. If preferences are fully homogenous, as I mentioned in my earlier reply, you are fully correct. I believe that full homogeneity is impossible. What I showed in my note is that, even with a little bit of heterogeneity of preferences you will get into a mess.

I on my part am against preference changes. This is for three reasons: (1) I believe that complete preference alignment is impossible and even with small heterogeneity there would be problems; (2) I am not an expert on changing preferences; (3) I sense ’superiority’ amongst those who advocate that others preferences should be completely changed over all alternatives to get to homogeneity.