Ordinary Banana

I have zero tolerance for "nuh uh, it's not <BAD THING> ... because. Now shut up." I respect a lot "yes, it is bad thing, let's grapple with it..." problem is, there's a mode that apes that second one: "I want to do X, so, uh, I've 'grappled with it'...and now I get to! WOO!"

The Repugnant Conclusion problem is basically an arithmetic error. I should write up my take on this but never will.

at its most basic it’s about the trade-off between existence (above some threshold) and well-being

which seems fair to me, at least to think about

It's a bad way to think about it, in that the death of an existing person is meaningful in a way the nonexistence of a hypothetical person is not. This should be obvious if you try to reverse the steps in Parfit's argument!

the way I read it, it has nothing to do with death and is all about possible people