Preference utilitarianism isn't like total or average utilitarianism. There can't be a "repugnant conclusion" unless people prefer it.
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Replying to @ProofOfLogic
True. There are people who do prefer the conclusion that has been described as repugnant, though. Me, for instance.
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Replying to @ModelOfTheory @ProofOfLogic
i usually understand "preference utilitarianism" to mean aggregating people's selfish (not total) preferences
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if my all-things-considered preferences are the aggregate of everyone's all-things considered preferences,
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then weird issues with circularity pop up
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CEV involves some sort of combining of all-things-considered preferences, but
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as i see it CEV isn't a moral theory and is distinct from preference utilitarianism, which is a moral theory
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also, i don't think it's the case that Model prefers repugnancy and others do not
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rather, everyone's repugnancy pref is conditional on some sort of uncertain outcome of how intuitions play out
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(i think Model is mostly objectively correct on how these intuitions play out, others mostly objectively wrong)
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