Preference utilitarianism isn't like total or average utilitarianism. There can't be a "repugnant conclusion" unless people prefer it.
i think "selfish" means it's about things in your own life. wealth or success or love or whatever
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i don't have a hard criterion for what's selfish but i think "selfish want about population ethics" is weird
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"i selfishly want there to be happy people in a galaxy far away who will never causally affect me" seems wrong
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I'm not sure, but in that case there's still indirect preferences on population. And those would be it.
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