Let's agree that all dictatorships are equally bad

This paper shows that a minimal degree of consideration for other people's well-being enables society to agree that one social policy is the best. I o ffer axioms that imply that this best policy maximizes a weighted sum of in dividual utilities. The weight of each individual is the inverse of his or her maximal possible utility from social endowments. The suggested policy i s not sensitive to the choice of the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. The key axiom is that individuals agree that giving all the endowments always to one person is as bad as giving them to any other person.