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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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @ModelOfTheory
Right, I agree that's important. So it's what people selfishly want wrt population ethics.
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Replying to @ProofOfLogic @ModelOfTheory
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.e. you can want that, but it's a want on the level of "i want preference utilitarianism"
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not a want of the kind that preference utilitarianism aggregates
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taking "preference utilitarianism" to mean something supported by some set of intuitions
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that support hedonistic utilitarianism but recognize people can legitimately want non-pleasure things in life
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